Two posts on how Orkut can bring together loved and lost ones.

First up, Kartik gets sentimental after he received birthday wishes from his first crush.

This morning [..] an orkut ticker buzzed on my laptop that a certain girl had scrapped me. The name rang a bell immideately. She was my classmate in class 4, and my first crush in those wonder years at St Johns School, Mandaveli. She apparently tried googling her name and landed on a post that I had written about my 21 birthdays. She managed to “orkut” my name and landed on my Orkut profile with a ” Do I know you” standard question.

And then, Sunshine on people then and now

The guy who was first caught writing a love letter to some random heartthrob of the class in 5th standard is a married man now. The guy whose dad would drop him in a rusty fatfati luna drives a car now. Most of them are either in Bangalore or in the US. Most women are married now (a further reminder of my misspent youth, ha ha) with kids, while men are no exception.