"నా దాన్లో పుల్లగా ఉన్నవి ఏమి వెయ్యొద్దు"

(don't put anything sour in food that i ordered)

Among the many fine things of Jaggu,  i was particularly

impressed by one that i wanted to blog about.  When we

go to a restaurant or international fast-food joints, before 

anything, Jaggu asks the person who takes the order 

whether he is fluent in Telugu. Most of them give a faint

smile and say they are.  We then start giving our order 

in Telugu and the bearer also interacts extremely 

comfortably.

Most of the waiters in these restaurants (in the metros) try 

to speak English with great difficulty while taking orders, 

and speak out only the phrases that they are probably 

trained on. This makes the experience somewhat unreal. 

In such circumstances, Jaggu's gesture encourages them (or 

anyone else) to speak  in the language they are comfortable 

in (telugu/hindi) while making sure the opposite person is 

comfortable in that too.

How much Dumber can you get, Palin ?

I was just reading an interview of Sarah Palin on CBS, with Katie Couric.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/09/30/eveningnews/main4490618.shtml

This inteview perfectly revealed how dumb, artificial and spoon-fed Sarah Palin was. I could not stop laughing as I read the above interview. She was asked a question about which newspaper she read, and for this she replied 'I read most of the newspapers'. And to this, she added that she reads the news articles with special appreciation for the press and the media :). LOL. Then, she was asked to name a specific newspaper among all. She says

"Um, all of them, any of them that have been in front of me all these years."

Then, she was asked to name a few of the newspapers that she read.  For this, she replied how people of Alaska were aware of things that happened in the rest of Washington, D.C. How dumb !! Did she not know the name of any single newspaper ?? :). Or was she trying to prevent any particular newspaper to get  highlighted ? Don't think so .

She was asked specific questions on abortion and she seemed to give such vague and unrelated answers.  And, she replied to things saying things like "my positions that I am pro-life .....". Felt like she had a bunch of advisors who gave her hints like "these are your views on these topics".

It looks as if she is an average american mom. In politics, she hasn't dealt with anything much beyond Wasila and Alaska.  And, she is running to be the vice-president of the most powerful nation.

It reminds me of an interview that George Bush had given before the presidential election in 2000. At that time, he didn't know where India was !