“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….