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.

Thursday, February 04, 2010

Crazy signs! A lesson in simple English!

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Many of you will remember my blog with this picture! SAS Radisson is obviously organising some Quests Yesterday, I went to drop Praveen (Ar...
Tuesday, February 02, 2010

Relaunched my car Rental Service

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Great news folks. I have relaunched my revamped Car Renting Service. Already all the cars are boojed. I only have a few vehicles now. Maybe ...
Sunday, January 31, 2010

Do you experience this urge?

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Very occasionally, I get an urge to do nothing constructive or destructive for a whole day. No walk, no going to the office, no handling tel...
Saturday, January 30, 2010

Surfeit of political postings?

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Some of our regular readers have emailed us that Annikki and I have of late been blogging more on politics than on general life in Finland o...

"I'll do it again" says Blair

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The Chilcot Inquiry is looking at events between 2001 and 2009, covering the decision to go to war against Iraq, whether troops were properl...
Friday, January 29, 2010

Obama cried "Foul"! Interesting!

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President Barrack Obama's State of the Union speech was interesting in that it was full of contradictions. He said he is phasing down th...
Thursday, January 28, 2010

Future of SAAB

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The international media has been speculating about the future of SAAB, the automaker owned by FORD and now to be sold to the Dutch company, ...
Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Is it for me?

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Yesterday was an exciting day as I was waiting for 9 pm Finnish Time, 10 am US Pacific time. It was at that hour Steve Jobs, CEO f Apple Inc...
Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Interesting question - one which I had not addressed!

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Today I met an avid reader of my blogs. Although an acquaintance of a long time, I have never had a chance to have an in depth word with him...
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Sunday, January 24, 2010

Work load keeps increasing

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Many thanks to so many of you for the kind advice on how to handle my increasing workload. But, it is not that simple when one is a writer a...
Saturday, January 23, 2010

The feeling of home

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You have to wander around our home (except my office room) and you will understand how much of an artist, my dear wife, Annikki is. Everythi...
Friday, January 22, 2010

What does it feel like to be ahead of your time?

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Almost 6 years ago when my dear friend from Bangalore, Anil Ananathkrishnan, the brilliant electric vehicles designer, sent me the present o...
Thursday, January 21, 2010

Dilemma! What do I do?

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I was in this dilemma when I stated blogging in December 2004. I had one blog for all my different audiences. At that time I also had web pa...
Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Obama gets kicked in his teeth

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This piece was carried on my Jacob's Politics Blog . Yesterday was the crucial Massachusetts election to elect the replacement Senator f...
Monday, January 18, 2010

Health advice from a layman

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Yesterday, I had an email which was forwarded to me by a good friend in Mysore. It contained details of the benefits of consuming cinnamon w...
Sunday, January 17, 2010

Something out of place?

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A walk around the Vesaisentie garden last summer after it has been reinvented by Annikki will reveal this scene. It is truly beautiful and t...
Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Unparalled beauty alongside tragedy

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As I stepped out at midday today, to go an pick up Mika from his water immersion physiotherapy, I drove out of the gate, and was struck by t...
Sunday, January 10, 2010

Integration Council members

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I read today in the Indian Telegraph about the new "Minority boost to integration council" . Here are the names of people that ma...
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Saturday, January 09, 2010

Irrational unhappiness?

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During our recent vist to India, many things were very pleasing, but an equal number were displeasing. One possibly irrational view was that...
Thursday, January 07, 2010

Useless Terrorist profiling

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This post should be under my JM Politics Blog, but I thought it important enough to get multiple exposure, so it is also posted on my main ...
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