Jacob's Blog

Annikki and Jacob Matthan live in Oulu, Finland. Annikki is a Finn, Jacob an Indian. They are the founders of the Findians Movement way back in 1967. Both are now retired. They have been married for 57 years. This blog is an account of their lives and thoughts as reminiscenced through Annikki's and Jacob's eyes.

Saturday, December 15, 2007

Latest published articles

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Posted on ALL our major blogs - my Jacob's Blog , the Oulu CHAFF Blog , the Mumbai Cathedralites Seventh Heaven Blog and the Delhi Step...
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TODAY: Mumbai Unplug / Batti Bandh -- This is how Mumbai will "Unplug"

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Posted on my Jacob's Blog , Mumbai Cathedralites Seventh Heaven Blog and Delhi Stephanians.blogspot.com . I have received this message ...
Tuesday, December 11, 2007

Kamalesh responds

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Posted on Jacob's Blog and the Kooler Talk Blog for Delhi Stephanians A couple of weeks ago I sent the congratulations from all of us o...
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Friday, December 07, 2007

No Winner!

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A few weeks ago I had asked what my amazing wife, Annikki, had in mind when she created this contraption out of chicken wire. There were hun...
Thursday, December 06, 2007

Online Spice Shop from Oulu

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Posted on Oulu Best Buy , Oulu Chaff and Jacob's Blog . About six months ago a long standing Indian resident of Oulu, Atul, informed me...

Am I a pastor?

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Posted on the Oulu Chaff Blog and on Jacob's Blog . I was returning home yesterday from a meeting at about 10 pm, when, quite close to ...
Sunday, November 25, 2007

Stephanian Kamalesh Sharma 60er / 62er

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Posted on the Kooler Talk (Web Version) Blog and my Jacob's Blog . College ragging is much in the news. The first person who "ragg...
Thursday, November 22, 2007

Oulu is full of Life - Welcome

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Posted on the Findians Group site , Jacob's Blog and the Oulu CHAFF Blog . As Christmas season dawns on us, Christmas shopping has alre...
Tuesday, November 20, 2007

Remembering one's dad

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20th November is a day that I always feel deep in my heart as it is the birthday of my late dad. After finishing his schooling in Bishop Cot...
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Wednesday, November 14, 2007

Why is the Laplander sitting down?

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The temperature was just right and the snow was perfect for making the snowman. But, this year Annikki has him sitting down on a snow stone!...
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Tuesday, November 13, 2007

Creative artist's vision

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When Annikki created this: she had a vision of this: and the detail is this: When she created this: she was seeing this: What do you think s...
Sunday, November 11, 2007

Kudos to Aruna and Mahesh

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Posted on my Jacob's Blog , the CHAFF Blog and also on the Findians Google Group Pages . Yesterday, Annikki and I were able to attend t...
Saturday, November 10, 2007

The passing of my Godmother

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Tomorrow would have been her 91st birthday. I had already planned to send her my birthday greetings. When I reached my computer this morning...
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Friday, November 09, 2007

The quiet German girl gets....

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Posted on the Oulu CHAFF Blog and my Jacob's Blog . Almost two years ago, I picked up a very shy German girl at Oulu Airport. She had n...
Tuesday, November 06, 2007

Conference Call, Democratic Underground Forum, Impeachment

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It is rare that I mix a political entry on our Jacob’s Blog as I usually reserve it for my Jacob’s Politics Blog . Dennis Kucinich with hi...
Saturday, November 03, 2007

Indian Engineers pouring into Finland

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The last two days has been busy looking at the issues facing Indian Engineers who are pouring into Finland, especially north Finland. Yester...

A new artist phase - Wire Mesh....

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Annikki goes through phases as an artist. She has been through her chalk drawing, textile designing, ginger bread houses, edible art, rubbis...
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Thayyil Kandathil Family Directory 2007

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Yesterday's post brought me much joy as there was a small package from my uncle, Mr. K. M. Mathew, now 90 but still quite active. It con...
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...
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