Rubénerd!

Starbucks have released a PDF of their opening hours during the Chinese New Year long weekend. Their branches at Liat Towers, Pacific Plaza, Plaza Singapura (with the exception of Tuesday), Raffles City, Northpoint and all the airport terminals are still open 24 hours. All the branches in the CBD around Raffles Place are completely closed.

No word at all on the Coffee Bean's website whether they're open or not. Killiney Kopitiam seems to be closed from the ones I've been to.

This has been a public service announcement from the Rubénerd.com Coffee Obsessors Association, Pte Ltd, Pty Ltd, GmBH, Sdn Bhd, LLLLLLLP.

At the risk of sounding cliche, this particular Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf at the Junction 8 in Bishan has always been special, not least because it was...

• where I had my first black cup of coffee!
• the closest coffee shop to Veritas, the first company I worked for when I left high school in those few months before uni started
• where Felix Tanjono and I would meet after school
• where I met my first lady friend :)
• where Felix Tanjono and I would meet for brekkie for their unlimited coffee before 11am!

Meeting someone from work today there I noticed that it had changed; they've extended it out and added more tables. Aside from that it's the same, and good to know it's still here!

If there's any better way to start a day, I sure as hell don't know about it.

Coming to you from the birthplace (and the place I still consider home) of the Rubenerd Show, the Paragon Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf in Singapore!

Talking over a morning cup of coffee, the idea for the show (no non-American New Time Radio shows available, an 'Asia Pacific Overnightscape', Singaporean wireless saturation (number 2 in Asia behind Japan of course!), Felix Tanjono and Ruben scheming at this very coffee house) and recording Singapore video. Recorded outside so may hear some traffic!

Download MP3 ↓ 10:00 minutes, 6.4MiB

You can also stream it and view its Internet Archive page.

Will it Sink? (Wrigleys Extra Wild Fruit Drops), going into KLCC (The Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf, Elke not knowing KLCC stands for Kuala Lumpur City Centre!), the first A Moment With Elke Segment (Ruben sucks, you need to play Neopets, wasting life typing WWW), and Ruben's biological clock out of whack.

Download MP3 ↓ 10:00 minutes, 6.4MiB

You can also stream it and view its Internet Archive page.