The world loves a lover… Except Bal Thackeray, of course.
Imagine this: A moonlit night. A couple walks down a road after a candlelit dinner. As they stroll, there is a violinist playing "their song." The girl turns to the boy, who is down on bended knee. He gives her a ring and says those words every woman waits for, "Will you marry me?"
Sounds like a fairy tale proposal?
For the 'romantically' challenged who were either busy or just plain unimaginative and couldn't make much of this Valentine's Day to say those important words, there is still hope.
Will You Marry Me helps you plan and coordinate unique and romantic proposals -- mostly for men. A unique proposal planner, wedding and engagement announcer service, this site promises you your very own proposal page, and is also styled so that you can get a "cyber YES" out of her. It also helps you announce to your family and friends how special your mate is.
Paul and Wendy, for example, used the site not just to tell the world when they were getting married, but also to avoid the hassle of sending out invitations, as well as to announce how Paul proposed on the bench they met many years ago. Sigh! And all for a mere 99 dollars!
Not much to pay for a picture perfect happy ending, is it?
For those not that lucky, there's help at So You Have Been Dumped, created by radio presenter Thea Newcomb after her relationship with her Scotland-based pen pal went kaput. It offers sympathy to people who have not had any Valentine's messages. The opening line: "This site covers all the various stages - from a raw heart to a fresh start. No matter what stage you're at, there's something at soyouvebeendumped.com just for you."
Not only does the site offer five favourites of songs to listen to, but also promises to offer advice even at 3.00 am when none of your friends may want to give you a patient hearing. Lonely hearts can use the site to plot their revenge on the partner who dumped them. Other innovatively named sections called Ex-Change, Ex-File and Ex-scape offer advice and tips. A must-see.
Closer home, an Indian site in its beta version also lets you cry your heart out. WeWereDumped has a section that would appeal to most Hindi film buffs - the Bollywood Dumpyard, where you can crib all you like about how Aishwarya Rai gave you the slip or Sushmita Sen broke your heart. They also have a 'Chosen Dumped of the Month'. Good for laughs.
Proposals also have a way of making time stand still, for some. Which is why Timezone should help in similar situations. It has lots of time trivia to keep you entertained -- from sun clocks and how they measured time, to rhymes on time, time across different continents, a history of time, clocks, ancient calendars, time scales, calculators and much more.
On to something more practical -- always a good thing to do the minute you're dumped.
Timesofmoney has everything to do with the green stuff, and how to make it grow. It offers information on deposits, small savings, insurance, cards, personal and auto loans, home loans, property, mutual funds, stocks and shares, bill payment, taxation, NRI services and corporate financing. Whew! The killer application, however, is its financial health check that users can take to get an idea of where they stand financially, and where they can go from there.
Lastly, a site one can spend a couple of hours at.Who's Who Indian claims to be the first virtual encyclopaedia for Indians. The portal is making a bid to cover everything Indian under the sun, be it culture, religion, politics, fine arts, judiciary, etc. You can search for any person or company and, better still, actually find them too!
The portal has nine broad categories: consultants, individuals, institutions, manufacturing industry, organisations, professionals, service industry, students and trade which help making searching for lost buddies or a new company easier.
Now you know what to do when your partner leaves you, or when you suddenly have a little identity crisis you can't handle.
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