Saturday, February 25, 2012

Kaukkovainio Incident

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The "Silent March" on Friday to remember the Moroccan who was killed last Saturday evening at the Monaco Pizzeria brought to mind ...
Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Another Jousimies?

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If one reads the report about the recent murder of two Moroccans in the Kaukkovainio pizzeria, ( Not Racism ), the root cause was the alcoho...
Thursday, February 16, 2012

Norwegians amazing behavior

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Although I do not know the full story of the Indian children taken away from their parents and placed in a foster home, as it has not been c...
Monday, February 13, 2012

Change from drunkeness onwards

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Jousimies was a nice small restaurant in our local community area, but over the years it got taken over by a group of louts who spent the wh...
Friday, February 10, 2012

U Decide : Does This Guy Even Know His Subject?

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There are times when you receive a forward from a friend and you laugh of guts out. I laughed at each line while I read through this. In t...

Web contacts worth following

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A few weeks ago, an email arrived in my Inbox. I sort of liked what I read. I decided to subscribe to the newsletter and have been receiving...
Tuesday, February 07, 2012

Quick trip to Helsinki

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I took the Blue1 flight at 09:15 to Helsinki (€ 54 was return fare!). It was bitterly cold, -32 C, and with the slight breeze, it was about ...
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...