Retribution, thy name is orkut

Orkut has been a phenomenol success with its extensive use in social networking a.k.a trying on new girls with "i saw your profile and just wanted to be a friend. Would you like to be friend" or "Hey beautiful, wanna be a friend" or the cheesiest one " A look at your pic and i knew i wanted be your friend"....schucks.....grow-up guys....even the dead are rolling in their graves reading this..

But thing that i like the most about orkut is the testimonial part. Express your feelings about another person. Some are beautifully written, others the usual crap like a flower or some weird drawing made with "/" ,"\", "," , etc. God knows where do people get time to think of these designs.

Anyways, when its a BF/GF writing it about the other person, its a tough one. One of the reason being that there is so much you wanna write about the other person that 1024 characters is just too less a space(hence multi testimonials from same person). Then there is a danger of saying too much and thus being too obvious in your testimonial(in case both are not ready to shout at the top their voices that they are in L-O-V-E) . Hence lines like "you know what i mean" or "I hope u understand this :) " or "remember" and so on......

Both will go through them a million times telling the other person how much it means to him/her. That its really very close to heart and will always cherish it as a loveable gift of a lifetime. But then GOD is a funny guy. Few days,months or in some cases a few years and the reality bites.....BREAK-UP....we are on a break....

And then the same testimonial becomes a pain-in-a**. Reasons:

1.) Every time you open orkut and there it is, smiling you in-the-face....if you have difficulty picturizing that laugh then remember Nasiruddin Shah in Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na (when his son the "Ranjour Ka Rathore" comes back home all blue and black after a fight. So sarcastic).

2.) Emotions expressed in it are now just words which mean nothing.

and most importantly

3.) You dont want your new BF/GF to know about it or if he/she knows about it, then you dont want that poor soul to go through it over and over again and then give him/her constant explanations as to what did you mean when you had written all that. All those expressions "you know what i mean" or "I hope u understand this :) " or "remember" that you had written with so many giggles are now the bane of your existence. In every fight, every argument, they will invariably come up. None of your explanations "Yaar, i didn't mean anything", "Voh to aise hi likha tha", etc. will work. Finally a few tears or a day or two of "BREAK" might work. But then you wont be able to stop yourself from thinking" What the fu** was i thinking when i wrote that?".... ha ha ha

Way out, tried and tested one, delete it. Out of sight,out of mind. Next time argument ho to just say,"Mujhe nahin pata tum kis baare mein baat kar rahe ho, i cant remember" and just pray that the other person suffers from amnesia about the same.

So my conclusion, dont write testimonials if you later can't take a little pain-in-a**. Keep your feelings limited to messages, emails, love-letters,cards,etc. Because beta "Yeh Duniya Gol Hai" and "Is zindagi ke paapon ki sazaa isi zindagi mein milti hai".

Happy orkutting :)