Tuesday, January 31, 2006

Hilja comes home

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We brought Hilja home today. We used the wheelchair and an Invalid Taxi, which is subsidized for her. To bring Annikki and her home it cost ...

A picture that Annikki thought exciting

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There are many pictures that are captured during a normal winter. But the one below is one that Annikki wanted me to capture. This is a pict...
Sunday, January 29, 2006

Great difficulty....

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Yesterday evening, Annikki and I had a great deal of difficulty in choosing which restaurant to celebrate our wedding anniversary. With so m...
Saturday, January 28, 2006

Guess what, I woke up at 10 am

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Most of my adult life I have been waking up at hours between 3:30 am and 6:00 am as there are so many things to do and only 24 hours to do i...

39 - Lucky Numbers 3 & 9

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28th January has been a landmark day for all the last 39 years. 3 and 9 are supposedly my lucky numbers according to many numerologists who ...
Friday, January 27, 2006

Former Catholicos Mathews II passes away

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KOTTAYAM: The former Catholicos of the East and Malankara Metropolitan Baselius Mar Thoma Mathews II passed away on Thursday at the Catholi...
Wednesday, January 25, 2006

60th Birthday of a sister

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Annikki and I went visiting today. It was Annikki's sister's 60th birthday. Aino (pronounced as "I Know") and Annikki set ...
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Monday, January 23, 2006

My new blog - CHAFF

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I have started a new blog - CHAFF, which stands for Chamber of Assistance for Finns and Foreigners . CHAFF is still not an official body. We...
Saturday, January 21, 2006

Cold days

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By Thursday the temperature had dropped and it was sure we were going to have a cold weekend. With the ambient temperature of -31 C and a wi...
Thursday, January 19, 2006

Wednesday and Thursday...

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The cold weather is rapidly moving across Finland. That we had to take Annikki's mother to the Old People's Home on Wednesday was a ...

Someone help me...

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George Chandy and C. Chandy are two children of Administrator K. Chandy, one of the two well-known Malayali families who served the Mysore M...
Wednesday, January 18, 2006

Cold, Colder,....

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The temperature in Oulu is dropping and dropping and ...... Yesterday, the thermometer itself was not that low - only around -15 to 17 C. Bu...
Monday, January 16, 2006

Annikki went out for the first time

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in 3 weeks! When Annikki's mother is at home, Annikki just does not have the opportunity to step out of the house. But this Sunday was s...
Sunday, January 15, 2006

Georgie celebrates his 74th

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There are few people in Chennai that I look up to - and the onethat is at the top of the pack is Georgie (K. George), the former Technical D...
Thursday, January 12, 2006

CHAFF

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Here is the proposed name for the Sunday Club organisation. Can anyone work on a nice logo for this. I am not much of a designer. CHAFF has ...
Wednesday, January 11, 2006

Hundreds of Season's Greetings...

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There have been many hundreds of Season's Greetings that reached us in many different forms, online cards, emails, greeting cards, telep...
Sunday, January 08, 2006

CHAFF - what is it?

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Over the last six months a small group of foreigners have been meeting together to try to help other foreigners who have problems. Slowly, t...
Saturday, January 07, 2006

I give up...

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Being attacked from all sides, Superdog won the day! Superdog Samuel show me his tail History buffs from all corners of the globe weighed in...
Friday, January 06, 2006

Morning reading...

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(This entry has been cross-posted in all the three blogs today.) We recieved this very beautiful email from a very valued dear friend, Cynth...
Thursday, January 05, 2006

Chamber of Assistance for Foreigners

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What started as the 4 person chit chat group of four foreigners in Oulu is expanding so rapidly that the Chamber of Assistance for Foreigner...