Just as we started......

I have not been blogging for a couple of days as Prof. Ajeet Mathur and Sari Joutsimäki have been here. After taking part in a discussion group arranged by the City of Oulu Business Development Office mainly composed of Chaff participants (Pentti Paakki, Matti Mosia, Masili Festo, David Okele and myself) who were keen to meet this outstanding professor and his colleague.

Sari and Ajeet

Festo (Sudan) and Sari

David (Kenya), Matti and Pentti (Finland),

Ata Bos (The Netherlands, Oulu City)

Sani (China) and Festo

Ata Bos, the Organiser

Ajeet

The next day we went to Smart House in the Technology Village. I was surprised that the person who was our informant of the situation of the Village, Pauliina Pikkujämsä, Program Director, is the mother of Samuel's, our grandson, dear friends, the twins, Elias and Konsta.

Pauliina and Ajeet

We visited Oulu University, met Ata Bos's husband, Dr. André Juffer and then met Vamsi Krishna and Dr. Sebastian in the Microelectronics Laboratory and Päivi Kytömaki, the Head of the Oulu Library.

Sari and Vamsi

Sebastian and Ajeet

In the evening, Ajeet and Sari had a one to one intensive discussion with Isaac Sunderajan, CEO of Codenimicon Oy, at his residence, as he had just returned from Italy.

Yesterday we lunched at Michele's Chinese restaurant, (Michele being from Calcutta) The Royal Garden. We ended the visit with a great discussion session with Ildikó and Ilari, who visited us late in the evening at Kampitie and, just as we started this visit, a superb Thai meal at the Pailin Restaurant with our wonderful hosts, Unnop and Pailin.

Sari, Ajeet, myself and Unnop