Purple no more?

Friday:
Microsoft wants Yahoo! so that it can try and squash google. No one wants to comment. Goog says its not going to affect the way people search so we arent giving a damn. Market says yaaayy oh wow and Y! stock prices soar.
read the real thing here http://www.ciol.com/content/news/mgas/2007/107050501.asp

Sat:
oh no.. nothing of that sort is happening... the courtship is off... what happens to Y! stock.. we'll see
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2003694286_microsoft05.html

ho hum.. but i am kinda glad.. you see.. I bleed purple. Really.

A love affair that started the day i logged on to the big bad world of internet through VSNL ( remember that one?. The first site i went to was of course, Hotmail...u know.. sabeer bhatia et al...With all the excitement of a newbie netizen..i did what everyone else was doing.. i went to yahoo! The funky red logo with the cure graphics on its masthead... the oh so adorable emoticons on the Y! msgr.. i was hooked and how..

Years n years later, imagine my reaction when I get a call asking whether I would be interested in doing JUST ONE ad for...Yahoo! India... Interested? YES YES YES a MILLION TIMES YES... Next call was to Ash, who was out gallavanting somewhere during office hours .. told him to come back to office..we had two days to work out some ads for a new client.. After the usual copy writer-ish response : why do all clients wake up on the weekend... 2 days is too less.. not fair.. blah blah blah.. (hes going to kill me for this) he calmed down enough to ask me, 'so who's this new client anyways'
and then when i told him... there was a 3 min long silence at the other end of the phone. PRICELESS.

Since then we've been living, breathing and sleeping Yahoo!... its products... the guidelines... the people...There's nothing more inspiring than clients who are crazily in love with their brand.

Its been over 4 years to that day...the industry has turned around... people have moved.. things have changed...

But whatever (.....) happens,i think i will always remain a little purple.