Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Bombay Mix in Oulu

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Posted on Jacob's Blog , the Oulu Best Buy Blog and the Oulu CHAFF Blog . Last Sunday, after our CHAFF get.together at the Coffee House...
Tuesday, October 30, 2007

87 year old great grandmothers

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Yesterday evening, Annikki came running down to the cellar wanting me to rush up to the kitchen with the camera. There I found two 87 year o...
Monday, October 29, 2007

Remembering two important people in my life

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Last night, as the clock ticked past midnight, Annikki and I remembered two people, both of whom Annikki did not have the chance to know as ...
Friday, October 26, 2007

Indian contingent due in Oulu

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Posted on Jacob's Blog and the Oulu CHAFF Blog . November 2007 will see a large increase of the Indian engineer population in Oulu. Th...

Arctic Syndrome

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A young student from a country far south of Finland expressed to me yesterday that she was suffering from a seasonal illness. On further que...

Autumn sales

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Posted on the Oulu Best Buy Blog and also on Jacob's Blog . This weekend has lots of great offers as the autumn sale season has started...
Tuesday, October 23, 2007

American stupidity or insanity?

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There is this news item in the American media 7-year-old suspended over stick-figure drawing Complaint about image depicting 'water pist...
Sunday, October 21, 2007

Sports on TV this last weekend

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Now that the leaves are fallen and the satellite antenna is providing us with some 200 channels, I am able to watch many sports channels, wh...
Friday, October 19, 2007

Can anyone explain this?

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The 1984 Ford Escort, more widely known among my friends as THE RABBIT, was painted and done up by my friend, Nassar, who has a garage on th...
Thursday, October 18, 2007

Risto Uimonen: Raise your blinds!

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The other day, the Oulu local newspaper, Kaleva, carried a small news item covering a book by Professor Heikki Patomäki of Helsinki Universi...
Saturday, October 13, 2007

A Mallu feast ends with tears

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We have a delighful Mallu couple in Oulu. They are both electronics engineers. They invited Annikki and me over for dinner. This was one of ...

Dawn of a new winter

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We are now half way through October, but yesterday we saw the footsteps of winter fast approaching. The ponds are freezing over during the n...

25 years on

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Posted on my Jacob's Blog and the Stephanian Kooler Talk Blog . On Tuesday, I went Oulu Airport to receive a friend, a very dear friend...
Monday, October 08, 2007

Antiques and Migrating Birds

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Posted on my Jacob's Blog and the Oulu Best Buy Blog . Sunday before last I met Ilari's aunt, Lizzy, at the CHAFF meeting. Victor a...
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Philip Mathew hits 60

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Philip Mathew (known to me as Thambi) was a Stephanian a few years after me. Younger brother to 64er Mammen Mathew (Rajen), Thambi is also t...
Sunday, October 07, 2007

Spreading like wildfire

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The article which appeared in the Readers Digest Living Green: Ranking the best (and worst) countries: By Matthew E. Kahn, PhD, and Fran Lo...
Saturday, October 06, 2007

The Rabbit has a shiny nose

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All through spring, summer and autumn, I have been using the scooter and occasionally the SAAB I bought from Kannan to help him out financia...
Friday, October 05, 2007

Finland best for living?

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Posted on my Jacob's Blog , the Cathedral School Seventh Heaven Blog and the St. Stephen's College Kooler Talk Blog . In a Readers ...
Thursday, October 04, 2007

To Hirosenkoti

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Annikki's mother, Hilja, has been in very good health these last two weeks. She was very happy to have a bath today and she ate very wel...
Wednesday, October 03, 2007

Through the eyes of an Arab Israeli Human Rights Activist

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Posted on my Jacob's Blog , Jacob's Politics Blog , the Move The UN Blog , and the Liberal Talk Show Ratings Blog . The shrinking of...