Sep 09

It was 7 minutes after midnight. My laptop was lying on the couch in the living room of my house. I opened Mozilla Firefox and then had a look at orkut. Orkut is an online community that connects people through a network of trusted friends. I entered my login and password and got a page asking me to link my gmail account to orkut account. I just could not login how hard I typed.

My name is Kolar Sumanth Iyer. I know all the blogs in IIIT and their authors (thanks to blogroll) and every room number in Old Boys Hostel till 335.

Four years ago, when I first met venki, he introduced me to Orkut.

He first showed me this picture

and I knew that it meant ‘happy’, like when I’m reading about the new Apple releases, (I plan to buy a laptop) or when I am still awake at three or four in the morning and I can walk up and down the street and pretend that I am the only person in the whole world.

Then he showed me this picture Sad

and I knew that it meant ‘Sad’, which I felt when there was no icecream in the coffee shop or worse still if the coffee shop itself was closed

Then he showed me some other pictures


but I was unable to say what they meant. That is how I got introduced to orkut. These are some of the reasons why I hate orkut

2) Its blue in color. Poison is blue in colour and I dont like poison.

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