Friday, July 30, 2010

Finland's hotest days

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Forest fires are raging in Russia as temperatures crossed 40 C. The forests are like tinderboxes. Finland was no worse yesterday, knowing ...
Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Crisps - Your favourite flavour?

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Yesterday was another up and down drive to Helsinki - left at 4 am from Oulu and returned at 5 am today. One of the things I do to keep aw...
Sunday, July 25, 2010

Swamiji's in Oulu

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Staying at the Guest House in Oulu were two very learned Swamiji's from Palghat, Kerala. They have travelled extensively in Europe, and ...
Thursday, July 22, 2010

Willis Conover and Jazz Hour

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Willis Conover Host of Jazz Hour on VOA I posted an entry on my Seventh Heaven Blog about Voice of America's Jazz Hour. I had replies te...

Peacocks

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My beauty, inside and outside. I was driving on my scooter to town yesterday when, coming in the other direction, was a lady on a cycle, wit...
Monday, July 19, 2010

Some things remind me of India

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Indian Mangoes After 26 years in the wilderness, a beautiful wilderness, there are some things that remind me of India but yet are not quite...

Speed cameras - A DANGER

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Yesterday, I made a quick trip to Tampere, about 500 km south of Oulu. I chose a route which is the shortest, rather than the conventional...
Friday, July 16, 2010

Google is amazing

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At 4:20 (16:20) today, I put up my most recent blog entry and mentioned my experience yesterday with water plaining. I was not sure whethe...

Two more days for registration

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Many of you have asked how to do the registration for access to my blogs. (Two comments on this subject as well.) All you have is to sen...
Tuesday, July 13, 2010

Orbituary of a friend

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I was informed by the son, Venkatesh, of a dear friend in Chennai that his father had passed away. Last year, on our Bharat Darshan of 2 m...
Saturday, July 10, 2010

An important request to ALL our readers

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Dear Readers of all our blogs, It is with great sadness that we have to announce that we will now have to make all our major blogs accessi...
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Sunday, July 04, 2010

This makes me MAD!!!

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On Friday afternoon, one of our Indian engineers called me at about half past two and said he was not feeling well. I rushed to his workplac...
Sunday, June 27, 2010

The background to "Loma raha"

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Many of you have been asking me as to the background to the "lomaraha" that many Finns receive. It is equal to a month's extra...
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Saturday, June 26, 2010

Midsummer Rose Blooms again

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Every year, without fail, the Midsummer Rose at Kampitie, at least one, opens up and blooms. This year was no exception. From 2010 Kampiti...
Friday, June 25, 2010

What a cosmopilitan mix

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My Nordkapp Mini Bus trips are proving to be popular and quite a cosmopolitan mix. Last week we had 3 Finns, 2 Indians, 1 Romanian and 1 ...
Monday, June 21, 2010

Is this THE Dara Singh?

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As many of you may have noted, my blog entry about Dara Singh and the other wrestler's of the 1950s are some of the hotest pages that I ...
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First Nordkapp trip travellers return

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It was at about 00:30 am on Monday morning when I got the call from Hannah, the tour guide of our Nordkapp trip, that the Mini Bus was just ...

Am I a crazy dosai lover?

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Many of you have asked me why I get so excited when I am served Masala Dosai in Oulu. You can get a reasonable dosai in every street corner ...
Saturday, June 19, 2010

Our joy knows no bounds

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It was on Wednesday that i reluctantly rang Joanna as soon as I reached home. Samu, as usual, picked up the phone and I asked to speak to Jo...

Why was I quiet? Feeling India at Oulu!!!

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It is quite common people that email me when I am quiet on the blogs. Late last week, I got a call asking about my health. I assured the cal...