Friday, July 3, 2009

Baffled by connotations,lost by value

Try to possess a Gay (alive,lively)spirit all the time,but please don't take Gay's time (fast,sudden) in deciding to promote yourself as a Gay(homosexual) icon.After all, whats wrong with,"aadmi hun aadmi se pyaar karta hun"??There was myriad hue and cry against its legalisation in India,but finally few ministers tried it with few judges and saw the paradise invisible and unperceivable by the coma affected common man.Violating the law of nature,Advertising the idea which will definitely let the unknown think about it and possibly increase members in that community club,Defining a new culture,we pushed the era of Page 3 at par with the lateral thoughts of youngsters.Anyway it was done,but if any guy is not sure about his interest,please follow the pic and be definite about your area of freedom.




The main issue is with the meanings of the word gay(alive,fast,homosexual),so if homosexuality means alive,then the legalisation is theoretically correct as every citizen needs to be pro-active...:)..See, connotations play such a vital role while deciding major issues in the society.Read the following article based on the same concept regarding how Russia stumbles into brand-name gaffe in Africa ,excerpted from the guardian newspaper.

It probably seemed a good idea at the time. But Russia’s attempt to create a joint gas venture with Nigeria could become one of the classic branding disasters — after the new company was named Nigaz. The venture was agreed last week during a four-day trip to Africa by Russia’s president, Dmitry Medvedev. The deal between Russia’s Gazprom and Nigeria’s state oil company was supposed to show off the Kremlin’s growing interes t in Africa’s energy reserves.
Instead, the venture is now likely to be remembered for all the wrong reasons, as a PR blunder worse than Chevrolet’s Nova, which failed to sell in South America because it translated as “doesn’t go” in Spanish. Alert users of Twitter first highlighted the unfortunate English connotations of Nigaz, which appeared to have eluded Medevedev’s Russian-speaking delegation. Writing on Monday, shunty 75 observed: “Nigaz is the name for the new Gazprom
Nigeria venture. They need a new PR outfit. NO WAY!! Haha!!” Other twitterers also derided
the name.

An article in Brand Republic pointed out the obvious: that the name has “rather different connotations” for English-speakers. It recalled other international branding mishaps, including the Ford Pinto, which in Brazil means small penis, and the Pepsi slogan “Come alive with the
Pepsi generation”, which in Taiwan translates as “Pepsi will bring your ancestors back
from the dead.” It is unclear why no one alerted Mr. Medvedev to the blunder. One possible explanation is that the offending word is still widely used in Russia. Nigaz plans to invest at least $2.5bn in oil and gas exploration, and to build refineries, pipelines and gas power stations in Nigeria.


Tuesday, June 2, 2009

A day to rejoice

What an event!!!what a day!!!Those who participated ,will cherish the moment for ever and those who didn't, can never forgive their silly ignorance.



10,57,8000,426....This golden sequence has a great significance in my life when it is represented with "km,minutes,total participants,rank" in one-to-one fashion.My rear shin bone muscles aching,fat and fibres in my tummy fighting against their death,both of my shoulder movements trying to expand the chest muscles,my skull getting hotter and hotter,but mind put a full stop long before to the thought of losing the NIKE Tee(supposed to be awarded to the fastest 1500).Started at number somewhat around 4000,completed 2 kms with ease.Till half way(5km),people crossed me like a factory-outlet Ferrari passing a second hand bulldozer.Then gradually i realised the practical use of number system with units.As the distance increased,my plan of completion focused on units in a decreasing fashion..from km to m to cm ,same with the scalar part of least count.Then there was only one truth i knew,"i am moving or spinning or rotating,something driving me or dragging me forward,but still i exist on earth."cheer leaders making noise with funny gestures,volunteers passing us water bottles as if they fed up keeping that waste product with them,photographers twinkling their small magic boxes and the remaining lazy bangaloreans cheering the runners with high pitch voices was a better confidence booster compared to the commanding speech of Barack Obama.Boss,continuity is neither stable nor independent in nature.You need to be a master in LIMIT to decide CONTINUITY of something.In application to human beings,Ur WILL-POWER makes it a dependent quantity.That's what happened.I noticed a mere no. of participants walking while breathing the whole atmosphere in and out when The nearby digital metre flashed "8Kms COMPLETED". I decided to keep my pace up when noticed two beauties (one from Spain and other from Switzerland) overtaking the air resistance ahead of me .My Nike shoe cladded legs came into life and crushed every bit of dust under it and my body was being launched forward to pave the way ahead of others.The timer chip flashed "57mins 6 secs" when i hit the 10km end line.we had photo sessions with legends like maurice greene , hugh jones , Reeth abraham...etc.Post run,Foot massage and vegetable treat were awesome.



I came, I fought n I conquered the SUNFEAST WORLD10K.Now it's time to wait for the courier guy to knock my door before handing me the brand new NIKE Tee with "I am a finisher" tag shinning with colourful letters...:).




P.S.:- There was a huge mistake made in the event's database by the organisers while filling details about me,for which i am suffering since my biological physique defies my gender shown in the below link .Hope you have faith on my words and don't take the matter seriously ...:),"Running Timing details"