Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Finnish Fake Lawyers

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23.11.2011 Speak no Evil, See no Evil, Hear no Evil Motto of the Finnish Lawyer's Association It was truly humourous to read the re...
Thursday, October 21, 2010

Change from a decade

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As you know I have been a Mac addict since 1984. With reason? When I got my first Mac Portable in 1991, a PowerBook 170, I travelled by tr...
Saturday, October 16, 2010

How time has passed!

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Ruki Family As usual, I have several excuses why my blogs has not been updated. None of them are valid except that I have not just been on t...
Monday, September 27, 2010

Amazing photographs of Oulu Sunsets

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Last week we went to see Annikki's sister. As it was nearing sunset, we thought a visit to the beach may give us something to brood abou...
Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Visit of Indian Ambassador to Oulu

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Ambassador Om Prakash and his wife Vineeta  Thanks very much to Asheesh, the CEO of Medipolis I GMP in Oulu, the Indian Ambassador to Finlan...
Tuesday, September 14, 2010

I was really chuffed...

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My Miss Universe  Quite unknown to my better half, I have been blogging her attributes at various junctures. She, however, does not look at ...
Wednesday, September 08, 2010

She had to have it!

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When we went to the beach on the 6th, Annikki saw a large piece of driftwood. She wanted to have it. Unfortunately we did not have our trail...
Tuesday, September 07, 2010

Could I refuse this request?

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Yesterday was Annikki's birthday. I got home at about 6 in the evening and wished her. She was talking to one of her sisters. I aske...
Friday, September 03, 2010

Puzzled by darkness

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Street Lights OFF? Now that we actually do have darkness in Oulu, as our nightless nights have ended, I was greatly puzzled the other day....

Living in Finland: Retrograde Steps

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Retrograde Steps The City of Oulu in Finland used to be of the very best cities in the world for pedestrians, cycles and slow moving mopos...

Finland: Oligrachy?? = Democracy??

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Oligarchy?? = Democracy?? Many years ago, when Annikki and I were running our fortnightly newsletter on the internet, "Findians Brief...
Wednesday, September 01, 2010

Wondering why?

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If you are wondering why I did not update this blog or any of the others recently, it is because I am trying a new experiment. I am always t...
Thursday, August 26, 2010

I wonder what goes through her mind?

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Zebras by Annikki - made for my mother.  Took 7 months. As I look out of the window, I see my better half of the last 45+ years doing many t...
Tuesday, August 24, 2010

First Error detected!

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I have been doing Sudoku since my return from India. Yesterday, as I was doing the one in my local newspaper, first thing in the morning, ...
Sunday, August 22, 2010

Good Health?

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Ok! I am Type 2 Diabetic because of my over-indulgence, real over-indulgence, in chocolates, candy bares, sweetened condensed milk and all ...
Saturday, August 21, 2010

Is it a lazy Saturday?

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Very often, when I am working, I get a feeling that it has been a lazy day! I thought about it and realised that I was not being lazy at a...

Is Finland the BEST country to LIVE IN?

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Is Finland the best country in the world to live in? That is what a recent Newsweek report said. It is obvious that none of the Newsweek...

Visit to Helsinki

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Ever since Nirmala told me that she was coming to Helsinki for a holiday, I have been planning with Annikki to go there for our holiday. Nir...
Saturday, August 07, 2010

Sadly Unused

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Grandson Dsniel in the traffic park in Oulu I was driving on the back streets of some of Oulu's residential colonies during the last cou...
Thursday, August 05, 2010

Driving to Helsinki and back

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Yesterday's 1300 km drive was one with a difference. A very strange storm hit mid Finland and I was amazed to see trees just pushed do...