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, March 15, 2012

Sheer stupidity - Where will it lead to?

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The CSF newsletter contained this a few days ago: Black beaded mangalsutra with cross. UK denies Christians right to wear crucifix Unite...
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Sunday, March 11, 2012

Madman of Norway

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Gunnar Toresen, Head of the Child Welfare Services of the city of Stavenger in Norway is nothing short of being a Megolmaniac Madman urgentl...
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Saturday, March 10, 2012

Budget Battleground

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This post is made in three of my blogs as it of interest to all my readers of Jacob's Blog, and more specifically the readers of my Mumb...
Tuesday, March 06, 2012

First time (also published my KOOLER TALK blog)

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Stephanian S. Y. Qurashi In my almost 70 years and over 48 years as an adult with deep interest in politics, this was the first time I actua...
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....
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