生日宣言 The Birthday Resolution
2005-12-09 02:18阅读：
“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.
Resolutio
ns 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….
