Our other kid Zeta, who is a labrador. She came to our house when she was 39 days old. She has completed one year today...

On this occasion, here is a poem that my husband learnt when he was small and remembered suddenly last week. Thanks to the net, we got the full poem.

My Dog

Have you seen a little dog anywhere about?
A raggy dog, a shaggy dog, who's always looking out
For some fresh mischief which he thinks he really ought to do.
He's very likely at this minute biting on someone's shoe.

If you see that little dog, his tail up in the air,
A whirly tail, a curly tail, a dog who doesn't care
For any other dog he meets, not even for himself,
Then hides your mats, and put your meat upon the top-most shelf.

If you see that little dog, barking at the cars,
A raggy dog, a shaggy dog, with eyes like twinkling stars,
Just let me know, for though he's bad, as bad as bad can be,
I wouldn't change that dog for all the treasures of the sea.

- Emily Lewis

Watched a few TEDtalks @TEDIndia that is happening in Mysore. I used the livestream by indiatimes. It seems that they are doing the live stream only on the first day and last day. I hope with today's response they change their mind and do it for the other sessions as well. Speed was pretty decent.

Facebook had a provision of updating status there, which several people used it like chat window and asusual there were some spammers. Attitude of some of the people who were commenting there was really bad. So after sometime I stopped looking at it. Anything anyone says people had negative comments immediately. They were commenting about their looks, their accent - it almost seemed like people were not listening to what the content or what the speaker was arriving at, but were there just for the heck of it.

Some of the comments indicated that these videos will be uploaded in ted.com by mid December.

I watched sessions starting from Pranav Mistry. I had watched the TEDTalk by Pattie Maes in TED.com about sixth sense, but when you hear it from the guy who has done it, it was a proud moment for every Indian. When he finished his talk, there was the first standing ovation of the afternoon @TEDIndia. What he told in the short interview later is that though several companies approached him, he has decided that sixth sense should reach all the masses and anyone should be able to make their sixth sense and hence he is going to make the software available as opensource in a months time. Thats going to be some kind of revolution. Information anywhere, anytime, and just about anything using any gadget you possess... Wow.

There was a second standing ovation, this time for Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev(Isha foundation), who was introduced as the 'Mystic' man. I've some respect for the yogi's, but somehow, all these gurus of this generation fail to impress me. This is my personal opinion :). One thing to be told - Speeches they make really are TOO good. He could hold interst of a well educated audience for 18 minutes. And he was humorous - "In a contest of Divine Vs Dosa, Dosa wins hands down" and the likes...

The last one was music - wonders it can do to people by Anil Srinivasan who is trained in Western Classical and his friend Sikkhil Gurucharan who is a trained carnatic vocalist. The presentation was not very great though the message was good, but when they let their music do the talking, it was just amazing. Gurucharan sang 'Aasai Mugam Maradhu Poche' a song by Bharthiyar. (Anil was saying this is about the yearning of the poet when his mom passed away - he says "why do I have eyes if I cannot see the one thing that i want to see"- I'm yet to figure out the complete lyrics and see if it indeed means that) and the next piece was 'Sheerabdi thanya kagu Srimahalakshmi kini' an Annamacharya Krithi. I never thought a carnatic song would sound so divine with piano. Gurucharan's voice was so soothing and the piano in background was just right and I was glad that I chose to spend that 18 mts online. Very very nice finish.