昵称Pack — 是我最喜欢的美国橄榄球队Green Bay Packers的缩写, 也许太喜欢了,10多年都用Pack做我各种登录网站名字. 现在看来Packers是美国最Web 2.0的球队了, 它是联盟中唯一的没有owner的球队, 所有球迷是它的shareholders, 充分体现了人人参与的精神. 可惜今年Packers是无缘Playoffs了. 北京最喜欢的地方 — 三里屯的Bookworm书吧, 尽管那里的latte和mocha实在很一般, 意大利菜lasagna也很油腻, 不过它却有北京最全的外文原版书collections. 正在读的书 — 从bookworm借的Machael Crichton的 "The Lost World", 实际是电影 "Jurrasic Park" 系列的第二集. 喜欢Michael Crichton还是因为很多年前想看女性如何对男性性骚扰的小说"Disclosure", 结果一发不可收拾 — "Sphere", "Congo", "Timeline".. 一本接一本… 最新的秘密 — 虽然没有看过超级女生, 也常自诩那不该是我这种大老爷们该听的, 不过前几天无意中听到了周笔畅的"笔记", 竟被她的歌声迷住. 我这不也开始写"笔记", 或者按照网络时尚术语讲 — blogging了吗? 参加最多的运动 — 排球与足球: 排球已经没有20多岁年轻的时候跳得一半高, 不过偶尔打女网的时候还能扣在三米线内, 算是聊以自慰. 足球的右脚水平下降厉害, 但是突然发现会用左脚踢了, 于是双脚互搏, 玩起来也更有趣, 想什么时候在北京开始大力发展米卢的"网式足球", 供我们现在踢不动的人过过球瘾. Pack

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“Get up everyday at 6am”

“Never drink coffee more than twice a day”

“Floss—at least after eating garlic”

“Never ever watch China football games, they just suck”

…………………………………….

Above are the terms on my previous resolutions that were stated firmly and to the point, and yet—-you can easily guess right, never fulfilled.

Resolutions are normally made on birthday or New Year eve, and are to be broken after several days by a regular Joe, or after several weeks by the ones with a stronger soul. It is almost a routine that health clubs are full of “strong-willed” exercisers sweating on dumbbells and abdominal machines during the first week of each New Year– only to see them vanish the week after.  

Considering myself a bit more than a regular Joe, I truly intend to set challenging goals and accomplish them. So the one million dollar question I am asking myself right now, on this yet another resolution-making birthday (2005/12/9), is: “Can I achieve the new Birthday Resolution?”

The resolutions could be as dreamy and peachy as following: 

–To get to know Sister Furong through a real six degree people-binding web site such as linkist.com, on the assumption that she is not always hanging out in virtual lap dancing rooms on 263 ET platform.

– To witness some China’s Internet startup CEOs not to fiddle with bloated numbers and show some honesty. In a way, sister Furong is more respectable and on a higher ground than them, since she is at least blatantly forthright with her body and live spirit, thus winning rounds of applauses in this evolving individualized society 

–To work in a Chinese Internet company that overseas counterparts copy, and not the other way around. There are just too many Chinese copycats of Google, Yahoo, and Ebay.

–To watch Milwaukee Bucks and Houston Rockets meet in the 2006 NBA finals, and happily watch my favorite team Bucks actually lose, because Yao Ming is on the other side. 

OK, OK! Forget about those unrealistic fantasies above and get down to business—my real birthday resolution. I do yearn for my resolution to be fulfilled on this particular birthday.

“Start blogging and stick to it”.

Well, that sounds easy, right? It is even hardly a resolution. Indeed, in this new RSS-tagged, blogs-saturated Web 2.0 era, it is inconceivable that I, as an Internet veteran, have never written a single line of blog.  

So here I come, Blog World! Always never too late to catch up, right? To coin the blog name, I started with “Pack”— the abbreviation of my favorite American football team Packers, a username that I have been using for years. But Pack’s what? I even reminisced a number of phrases from the sitcom “Seinfeld”— master of domain, queen of castle, or lord of manor, and decided they are either too formal, or too slangy, or just too not Web 2.0.

Eventually, I chose “Gossip”, a word that reveals the true essence of Blogging – trivial, chatty, yet meaningful and significant sometimes. 

So this “Birthday Resolution” inaugurates “Pack’s Gossip”.

Ball up in the air, kick off time: Game starts….