Cheng Shi was a Chinese warrior lady in who lived from 1775(?) to the mid 1800’s.
She worked as a prostitute until, in the early 1800’s, married a Chinese pirate mogul then took over his business and became one of the most powerful women in the world.
She made it big, came from nothing.
That shit’s so hot, man. I can’t believe that’s the first thing that I can think of, but damn.
I didn’t read too much about her. I just saw the wikipedia article and couldn’t find a documentary on her or anything like that.
Why are women in power so under-represented and under-reported? Is it just because she’s a woman? Is she famous in China, and if so, is she more represented and thought of in Chinese media?
I’m not sure. But if she can rise to the top with her great organizational and leadership skills, then who’s to say I’m not?
I’m just tired, man. I don’t have much to look forward to currently. I’ve been in bed all day, eating spicy dweji gohggi and a big mac. Sleep schedule’s fucked up too, and I still have to stay up late to get Josh’s items.
I just don’t want to be a slave to the game, man. I don’t want to play this corporate rat race. I want to play my own game.
But if I want to play my own game, I at least have to learn the rules of the game that I’m forced to play, pay my dues.
I am good at reading people, though. I understand psychological patterns and tendencies. I can spot them out.
I did have a dream where we were going to draft for a fantasy football season-long league, in a snake draft format. Within the dream, I’d gone to somebody’s house – somebody nerdy who had rich parents. Dan, Gagnon, and a larger dude with glasses — not sure who it was? — was there. I think it was his house.
Anyway, Peter Jennings was there. I was making my play – I picked Todd Gurley as the fourth or fifth pick after there was confusion about what was being picked. Suddenly, I looked up and realized my friends, presumably Dan, Gagnon etc. were all gone, and I was alone with all these dudes, including Peter Jennings, just chillin, not doing much. It was then that I realized everyone else had left without me, and when I made my pick of Gurley, nobody said anything, and I asked Peter what he had picked, and he didn’t look up and just said his pick.
That’s all I really remember – and loneliness. Constant feeling of being the only person in the room.. something I’ve felt all of my life, really.
It should be said that I believe Peter has a younger brother and a younger sister, and that my manager at work also has that same sibling dynamic. I think that was telling me that the correlation, or the parallel or whatever, was something my subconscious is trying to tell me.
What is that? I don’t know. That’s how it was presented to me. The meaning I’m not sure.
But I do know that I need to man up, sack up, take action, and not be a bitch anymore. Embrace the positives, let go of the negatives like cumicon said.
I don’t know. I’m just sad and lonely right now speaking into a blog, so who’s the one bitching now?
I bet it means something that it plays into Cheng Shi’s awesomeness is the first thing that came into my timeline, how she was such an amazing woman who came into power and facilitated an international trading/pirating line.
Maybe I just deserve to be this lonely all of my life.
KEVIN KIM 