My latest passtime.... ORKUT

I found a new toy to play with and you have to experience it to know how fun it is, especially if you are a lonely and secluded person like me. It is browsing through the profiles of unknowns and old aquaintainces on orkut.com.

As you might already know , orkut is one of the largest personal network websites. I am not the kind of person who loves to peek into the personal lives of others, but browsing through the profiles of those old friends in your high school is very nostalgic and that feeling has to be experienced to believe.

I have always been an introvert and I hardly spoke to any girl in my life. But inside me, I was very desperate to know about some of the girls during my college days. I never longed for a relationship with anybody, but I just wanted to know what goes on in their minds. I would have given anything to know about them. What was their favorite movie, music, book; what kind of people they like; what kind of life they wanted to lead; how does their room look; what were the topics of discussion with their other girlfriends on those boring sunday afternoons...etc..etc.

One common thing that I observed in most of the profiles from the girls is that they never put their original picture in their profiles. More than half of them have the pictures of popular actresses, handsome hunks and some romantic flowers. I can understand when a girl puts a picture of Salman khan or hritik roshan but why aishwarya rai and sonali bendre ???

I joined in the communities of my high school and engineering college. It was shocking to see some pictures of those old buddies who I could only picturise in a school uniform with nicely combed hair, now in their mid 20's with a full grown moustache. Also, there were those girls who I silently admired back then, most of them now married and the remaining working in some MNC's in either bangalore or hyderabad.

I won't be a least bit surprised if none of the people back from my kindergarten to my engineering college don't even know my name. But is there a tiny possibility that someone from my school or college is now looking at my profile and wondering ..." Is that the same guy who always used to sit a corner, hardly spoke to anybody, rarely came to college and never spoke to a girl"...???? , the same way that now I am wondering looking at the profile of our librarian's daughter from my high school....