happy reunion

I’ve spent a wonderful two days at Hyytiälä, a research center north of Tampere, together with both current and former colleagues. It was great to see the people from Shimmi group again and just made me realize how much I miss them!!
A full program of lectures, a poster session and food food food. Here we are at [...]

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I have some work to do

Here is the infamous sign – now with the addition of Oliver’s skull.

And yes, it says ubuntu on our door as Matteo has declared it a Linux zone. I have not yet succumbed to the idea…
If you want to see what my colleagues have done in their lives you can just look them up on PubMed.
Friday evening [...]

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Music from Anttu and Monica’s wedding

A tribute to everyone who performed at the wedding!
Playlist.com is the only site I know where you can make your own list of music, and since that site sucks big time it is not able to find any of the songs I want. So here you have the music in youtube format. Sorry about that…
Michael [...]

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André&Sofia

The second wedding of the summer took place on the 25th of July at Sion church in Vasa where my cousin André wed his lovely Sofia. (André is my younger cousin from my mother’s side)

              
              
              

Such a talented group of people at this wedding as well. Both the bride’s and the [...]

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Andreas&Monica

The first wedding of the summer took place 6th of June at Sundom church where my cousin Andreas and his lovely Monica said their “I do”. (Andreas is my younger cousin from my father’s side)

              

              

The family band with Andreas’ sister on keyboard, his brother on base, his nephew on trumpet and [...]

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Leftovers

We never got to try the natto that Shinya brought to my party this Saturday, so on Tuesday I reluctantly tried this “delicacy” for the second time in my life. It’s basically fermented soybeans and, how can I put it, not exactly my favourite Japanese dish…
I did however enjoy both sushi and dry seaweed at [...]

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Crazy food-party

A couple of weeks ago I woke up in the middle of the night with low blood sugar. I can never sleep when my blood sugar goes below 4 and since it takes a while for the ”cure”, in this case fruit juice, to kick in I always have some time to lie awake and think before [...]

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Celebration

Last Saturday we did not only celebrate Finland’s 91st birthday but also Veronica’s and Ann-Sofie’s 30th! In honour of this they had decorated the entire church café in white and blue and invited all their friends for a party. I was happy to be named the photographer of the evening and here are some of the [...]

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Action 08

The annual Action festival was this weekend and approximately 300 youths gathered each evening to listen to music and the word of God at our church. I thought it went really well, but don’t take my word for it, since I was the head coordinator of the thing I basically ran around like a headless chicken for [...]

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Halleluja

This weekend we opened our church after a one year long renovation. It has taken a lot of money but I think the greatest sacrifice has been all the time that the board members have put into this work. Planning and organizing the whole thing, making the tough decisions and still having another job to go [...]

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This weekend: David & Elia and a little bit of Brussels

This weekend I did something very unlike me and went off on a spontaneous weekend trip to the beautiful Brussels. Mostly to meet the even more beautiful couple, David and Elvira, who were getting married.
David is a friend from my time in Hong Kong where we took Beginner’s Cantonese together. Fluent in Mandarin as he [...]

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Dagens skratt

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