Impossible Is Nothing

{Copying this post from my old blog. This is about a year old post. Remembered this since its the soccer season again :)}

Adidas's new ad with the tag line - 'Impossible is nothing' - has caught my imagination. The ad has two Latino kids "imagining" a dream football team each. They toss and select a player each. They not only select players from different countries but also from different generations. At one end they have Zidane,Beckham and all and at the other end one guy selects Platini and Beckenbeur. And then they start playing till one of them is stopped by his shouting mom to stop playing and come back home.

The ad instantly touched my core. I could relate to it since when we were kids we used to do the same for cricket. For example me and my cousin in the backyard of the house would make two imaginary teams and select a player each and start playing. I would choose Australia or England and he would choose Windies or India. And then we would select players and play a 10 wicket game between just the two of us. That is he has to get me out 10 times so that "my entire team" is all out and then i would have to do the same :)

After seeing that ad i was reminded of those innocent days. In that sense the ad has a universal appeal. Showing how kids all over behave the same. All have their moms shouting to come home for having their bath or lunch or getting something from grocery store. And making sure she embarrasses her lazy son.

If an ad is all about sending a message, this ad has conveyed one too many. I must say i was impressed !!

Taking a break

... from blogging.

I wrote my first post on june-9-2007 on this blog. After more than 2.5 years of blogging and Bull Shitting, I feel like taking a sabbatical from it.

I always thought that I will stop when I don't enjoy it anymore. (I remember mentioning it in some post some time back).. I still enjoy blogging but I think I need to move on to new avenues or as they say - TP. (Our generation seriously needs ADHD treatment)

I am not sure what those new avenues will be. A different kinda blog may be! All said and done, I enjoyed while it lasted. It was a fun ride.

I wrote a total of 400 posts (including this one); BSing about everything under the sun. From Politics to Movies to Sports. Sometimes I touched on topics related to Nagpur (although I named this blog honestlynagpur, I din't intend to make it Nagpur centric).

Some of my posts were extremely opinionated, some just plain lame, others decent, while still others just sketchy. But so is life... :)

I won't decommission this or anything. It will be lying there out in the wild.. or as long as the blogger.com folks keep it. I may even restart at some point. Not sure.

I am looking to buy a new sleek SLR. May be I would like to start a Photo Blog in future. We'll see... I am not too worried about it right now.

Life has phases. I enjoyed this particular phase, where some topic would randomly pop in my head and I would go about rambling and ranting.

Anywho... enuf said. But before I end (or go on a long break), here's some trivia that might be relevant to this blog..

1] The most searched term on this blog was "Saoji.." Most google/yahoo re-direction to this blog came from that term. I have had people from unlikely places like "Kazakhstan" search for this term and come to this blog. It was funny..

2] I had about 35 posts on politics, 45 posts on India and around 84 random posts.

3] Some of my own personal favourites have been...'Aadaa Paadaa' , DCH , 'Nature Blesseth' , 'Zunka Bhakar' , 'Greatest Cricketing Moments' , 'Impossible is Nothing' ....

4] Apart from my family in Nagpur who were the most loyal readers (no surprise :)), I made good conversation with a few friends. You all know who you are ..

Life is a discovery. Till I discover my self a new amusement... Alvida!