Wednesday, May 25, 2005

Kodin Kuvalehti carries story about Kampitie Garden

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Kodin Kuvalehti is Finland's largest circulating women's magazine. Malayala Manorama's women's magazine, Vanitha , although...
Monday, May 23, 2005

Congratulations Tanya Matthan

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Tanya is the daughter Arun and Yasmin (née Shah) Matthan. Arun is the youngest in the Matthan Martthan (Babyappapen) family. I received info...
Wednesday, May 18, 2005

More news on the Bangalore tragedy

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I do not want to put the graphic details of this gruesome event on the blog so I give a link to the newspaper article on line News -- Bangal...

Two family demises

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Dear Maliyakal and Kandathil family members, I have, with great regret, to announce the demise of two very dear members of our family. On W...
Tuesday, May 17, 2005

Tragic news

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Late this evening, just around 11 pm, I was expecting a guest from Bangalore, India. "Tiny" S. Mazumdar, formerly of Hindustan Lev...
Saturday, May 14, 2005

Visitor from India

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Jitendra Sachdev is an old friend from Bangalore. I was a Director in one of his companies. Although I have been speaking to him, on and off...
Tuesday, May 10, 2005

Mother's Day 2005

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Sunday was Mother's Day in Finland. Here, in Oulu, we had a get together of four generation - Hilja, Annikki's mother, Annikki, Jo...
Sunday, May 08, 2005

Daniel on his 1st Birthday

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Daniel on his 1st Birthday
Thursday, May 05, 2005

Grandson Daniel's birthday today

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There was a small get together on 23rd April to celebrate son-in-law, Tony's birthday. Tony on his birthday - 23rd April 2005 Photo by ...
Sunday, May 01, 2005

93 today and going strong

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Dearest Pappa, Mr. K. M. Philip, oldest surving son of the late K. C. Mammen Mappillai, is 93 today. Please join Annikki and me in wishing ...
Wednesday, April 20, 2005

I am trying to get fit

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Now that the weather is really great I have started walking. In so doing I came across the first flowers in the city. First Spring Flowers...
Tuesday, April 19, 2005

Celebrate the 86th Birthday

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Please join Annikki and me in wishing a wonderful lady, known to most of us as Pallammachi, a very happy birthday today. She is a very grace...
Sunday, April 17, 2005

In Oulu we are celebrating

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Yes, we are celebrating something that probably of least interest to most of you. Our local Ice Hockey Team, Kärpät, has just won the Nation...
Saturday, April 16, 2005

Sorry for the absence

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I was quite well, thank you. Many of you emailed me because I was not active on the blog last week. The reason was not me, but grandson, Sam...
Monday, April 11, 2005

Another 60 year birthday

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A couple of weeks ago we celebrated the birthday 70th birthday of Kunjumonchayan. On a quieter note today we can wish his better half, Omena...
Thursday, April 07, 2005

Great news - Another blog to visit

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Great news, as daughter Susanna, in Billinghay, Lincolnshire, England, has started her own blog. Its been a long way from here: Susanna in ...
Monday, April 04, 2005

Listen to Susanna on Radio Lincolnshire today

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Susanna and family, Chris and Asha, have been on an experiment to not use a credit card for meeting daily living costs. This is an effort to...
Sunday, April 03, 2005

Kimi on the podium, Narain out in 3rd

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Finnish driver Kimi Raikkonen drove a great race to come in third while his team-mate, stand in for Pablo Montoya, Pedro de la Rosa, had a e...

Kimi 9th and Narain 18th on grid

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The pole position for today's Formula 1 in Bahrain was grabbed by Fernando Alonso (Spa) Renault with a time of 3:01.902 while Michael Sc...
Friday, April 01, 2005

A pleasant email from Saroopya

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I was very pleasantly surprised to get an email from a young engineering graduate from Madras, Saaroopya Gollapudi. Vishnu, Veena, Saroopya...