Sunday, March 06, 2005

Kimi 8th, Narain 15th, Australian Grand Prix

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Kimi Raikkonen from Finland, starting from 10th and Narain Karthikeyan from India, 12th on the grid, was not to be. Kimi's car stalled o...

Australian Formula 1 Grand Prix - 10th and 12th on Grid!!

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In Finland, we are quite crazy about car and motorcycle racing. Several Finns have made it to the very top, in Formula 1, Rally Driving and ...
Saturday, March 05, 2005

Trim at 71, Trim at 77

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010519018Thambichayan Originally uploaded by jmatthan . It is with utmost pleasure and delight that I have a chance to wish my seco...
Friday, March 04, 2005

75 today, Happy Birthday Dr. Mammen

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Bapukuttychayan (left) with Mathuttychayan and Kochappachen Originally uploaded by jmatthan . There are many doctors in our family,...
Thursday, March 03, 2005

Jaakko's photography from Norway

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As I mentioned that our elder son, Jaakko, is a great photographer, a number of you had asked for examples of his work. Over the next few we...
Wednesday, March 02, 2005

A correction from Georgie

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Georgie, the former Technical Director of MRF, and a regular correspondent, had a small correction to make about my story about Kochappachen...

Two years ago we lost an outstanding human being

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He changed the lives of many thousands of people by his open and humouristic, yet thoughtful and understanding of life in general. Mr. K. M....
Tuesday, March 01, 2005

Launch of the Electric Scooter in Bangalore

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Launch of the Electric Scooter in Bangalore Originally uploaded by jmatthan . My dear friend and super international inventor and d...

"Shoes" by Rahul Matthan

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I had unprecented compliments regarding the photograph by Rahul called "Oranges". Rahul has permitted me to blog some of his best ...

Cash Sense in the Matthan family?

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Grandma and Grandpa are very proud of their absolutely gorgeous granddaughter, Asha. Asha is extremely talented, being, at the age of 7, an ...

My 80,000 friends!!

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One of my corresponents (who shall remain unnamed) wrote to me "Dear Jacob, Even I would have 80,000 friends if I forwarded all the e-m...
Monday, February 28, 2005

Oranges by Rahul Matthan

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Oranges Originally uploaded by matthan . I have to say that I have found another Matthan with a great talent for photography. Not o...
Sunday, February 27, 2005

Doubt! Now I am reconsidering a decision..

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My daughter, Joanna does not believe that I have over 80,000 personal friends around the globe. She says that it is impossible to remember ...

Fascinating letter from Shallu

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When I wrote about Shallu's father, Dr. Nainan Varghese, I did not expect such a fascinating reply from her. She had sat her mother down...
Saturday, February 26, 2005

Samuel and Daniel with me

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With Samuel and Daniel Originally uploaded by Geordy . We, Anneli (Anniki's sister), Annikki and myself, just returned from a f...

Thanks to Shalu

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Anand and me Many thanks to Shalini, wife of Anand (son of the late George Matthan Sr.) and daughter of the late Dr. Nainan Varghese, for pr...
Friday, February 25, 2005

Bit late blogging today

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Annikki's younger sister, Anneli, who lives near Helsinki, in a small town called Masala, has come for a long weekend. I had to go and p...
Thursday, February 24, 2005

Cross-written Postcards?

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Ever since I picked up this postcard in Helsinki about 20 years ago, cross-written postcards which were older than 100 years became my obses...

Thanks to Geordy

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with samu Originally uploaded by geordy . I must thank Geordy George for sending me this very expressive photograph of Samu with me...
Wednesday, February 23, 2005

Shall I talk about "great" cakes, like Marie Antoinette

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Marie Antoinette was Queen of France. She married the Crown Prince of France in 1770. In 1774 she became Queen of France when her husband wa...