Rubénerd :)

Rather than working on all the stuff I’m supposed to do this week, I spent half an hour drawing a diagram, then removing the titles. This was more fun. Diagrams are fun ^^. That is all.

Hi everyone,

We’ll have internet at our new address by early September. Until then, these people write more interesting blogs anyway.

Peace, health, happiness and all that,
Ruben

With my dad, sis and I moving internationally again and with this latest project, I haven’t had much time for blogging or tweeting these last few days. I’m really excited though, because I just finished a really unconventional project for a client and it worked beautifully!

I’m not allowed to discuss the Five W’s, but suffice to say it used a lot of a certain flavour of Java and a really ancient database. I’m talking stone tablet ancient. And it worked! Yays! Alas for the sake of my anemic public resume/portfolio, this will be yet another thing I can’t add to it for NDA-like reasons. Oh well, I learned a heck of a lot and got lots of experience.

Now I’ll be taking a small sabbatical and helping my dad and sis move in and organise whatnot. Will be nice ToLiveWithoutLongCamelCase and dusty old manuals with yellowing pages that made me sneeze for a while ;).

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My old man told us the packers would be here today. They arrived yesterday. D’oh! This is our seventh massive family move thing. I love travelling and living in many different places, but packing sucks. Fortunately we’ve got rid of so much stuff, this is the first time we have less stuff than what we had before. It’s also our first family move since mummy passed on, which has been really fricken hard. I found it harder going through her stuff now than I did when we were choosing clothes for her funeral, which makes no fricken sense.

That has to be the most fractured paragraph I’ve ever written here. My writing sucks, but that was even worse than usual. Fricken is such a fricken awesome word. Fricken heck.

For those of you wondering what’s been up with my uncharacteristically long break from tweeting and blogging (still don’t like that word much), I’ve spent the better part of a week helping my old man organise this giant mess of boxes we call a self storage room and an apartment we only moved into back in 2007.

We’ve been making a lot of tough decisions and getting rid of stuff we don’t need. It’s a cliche but accurate observation that for far too long possessions have owned us, instead of the other way around.

Still got all my late mum’s stuff to go through too. I thought I was strong enough to, but apparently I’m not. Fortunately my sister is a dynamo.

We’re in the process of moving (we’re in the double digits for number of times now) so I won’t be posting anything new for the next few days. Or I may find time to ramble on my iTelephone and post from it instead, like I used to do in 2008.

I’ll still be messaging the hell out of Twitter with @Rubenerd and lurking on the GRC newsgroups if you want to say hi.

Thanks everyone,
Ruben

AdamNelson: @Rubenerd Why not stay in one spot

What a horribly mediocre idea!

In our efforts to clean out our apartment here, we decided to put a bunch of old home entertainment equipment up on eBay. I’d forgotten just how maddeningly frustrating it could be!

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I’m typing this post from a small café next to our hotel in Dublin and boy it’s freezing! There’s snow lightly falling outside and the footpaths are slick with ice which has caused more than a few bruises in the last few days, but we’ve still been thoroughly enjoying ourselves! Anyway I was going to save blogging until I got back to Singapore, but I couldn’t resist when I saw the above ad.

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My dad, sis and I are just about to leave the door to start our Europe trip. We’ll be heading to Germany via Dubai to catch up with relatives in Frankfurt am Main and friends in Munich, then to Plzeň in the Czech Republic, then driving back through Germany to Paris, then a flight to Cork and a tour of Ireland.

I’m going to take a ton of photos and will be blogging as much about it as I can! In the meantime you can follow our adventures on Twitter and Gowalla too.

Selamat tinggal! Wait, wrong language :D