Posts tagged with "recorded in kuala lumpur"


Rubenerd Show 222 (Mon 26/Mar/2007)

Tonight's guest: Elke Schade in the Rubenerd Studios!

Wearing a tutu, the Malaysian powerpoint culture in coffee shops, signs you may have a nerdy son, Rubenerd Show host Ruben turns 21, the flotation ability of glass deodorant containers, irresponsible environmental wastage in razor packaging, reviewing Twitter, Rubenerd Interview (Ruben's sister Elke), Principal Skinner from the Principal's office, stupid product packages, Ruben's hopes and dreams, tornadoes on Taiwan, Ruben's half-arsed MySpace page, how to pronounce MyMyMyMySpace, evil apostrophes Billy Connelly, George W. Bush losing the war on drugs, coffee is disgusting apparently, getting a MacBook), and drying your hair in the shower!

Download MP3 to Listen ↓ 45:00 minutes, 20.6MiB

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Rubenerd Show 221 (Mon 12/Mar/2007)

Tonight's guest: Felix Tanjono from Indiana in the United States!

Ruben's sexuality (don't take that the wrong way), changes to the programme, listener feedback on the Rubenerd Forum (Dave on Plunger coffee, Manny the Mailman's huge wallet), signs you are too dependent on your laptop, podcast review (Anything but Monday by Frank Nora and Mad Mike), Chinese high school girls, sinking plastic deodorant containers, irritating time zone differences, insane stalling downloads, power(point) struggles at Starbucks, dorky high school codenames, guys with long hair, exam halls next to gyms, John C. Dvorak gets no spam, and a row of cards that go to Jupiter!

Download MP3 to Listen ↓ 45:00 minutes, 20.6MiB

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Rubenerd Show 220 (Mon 27/Feb/2007)

The childhood train and ridiculous cards episode!

Home update, childhood nostalgia (Thomas the Tank Engine, Victorian Railways' H220), Overnightscape with Felix in Singapore, ridiculous numbers of cards (coffee cards of course!) and recharging non-rechargeable batts!

Download MP3 ↓ 12:00 minutes, 5.5MiB

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Rubenerd Show 219 (Fri 23/Feb/2007)

The people and plungers episode!

Living Coffee With Paul Bassett, Hugh Laurie before House MD, Rubenerd mailbag (Jeff from Indonesia, Julee Ng from Malaysia), making awesome coffee with a plunger, Chinese New Year in KL and smooth operator!

Download MP3 ↓ 12:00 minutes, 5.5MiB

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Rubenerd Show 218 (Thu 22/Feb/2007)

The GANGgajang hóng bāo episode!

Ruben philosophising about money, music nostalgia (GANGgajang, American Money, This is Australia), 12:00, getting hóng bāos (Norwegian Bakery, Starbucks, commercialisation) and having the best or the rest!

Download MP3 ↓ 12:00 minutes, 5.5MiB

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Rubenerd Show 217 (Wed 21/Feb/2007)

The fancy Malaysia/Singapore train episode!

Where the hell "Piggy Bank" comes from, more attacks in East Asia and Thailand, old clay stuff, high speed train between KL and Singapore speculation, the world is actually upside down, busted cables and 666 has arrived... again!

Download MP3 ↓ 12:00 minutes, 5.5MiB

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Rubenerd Show 216 (Tue 20/Feb/2007)

The dangerous beverage episode!

Podcasts outside the US, dangerous hot beverages, Chinese New Year in Malaysia (deserted streets, IT shops), groovy new Starbucks in Times Square, Westerners obsessed with East Asia and all's quiet on the KL front!

Download MP3 ↓ 10:00 minutes, 4.6MiB

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Rubenerd Show 215 (Mon 19/Feb/2007)

The economics behind computing episode!

Ruben trying to be serious alert! Ruben attempts to apply his university computing and economics studies to answer the question: why are there so many versions of Windows Vista? Oh and seriously being serious!

Download MP3 ↓ 12:00 minutes, 5.5MiB

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Rubenerd Show 214 (Fri 16/Feb/2007)

Gong Xi Fa Cai!

The spooky Chinese New Year in KL episode!

Frank Edward Nora is my radio idol, Singlish rubbing off, spooky night traveling in Kuala Lumpur with missing people, Scottish holidays, listener feedback (Dave, Matt, MannyTheMailman, Felix) and gong xi fa cai everyone!

Download MP3 ↓ 13:00 minutes, 6.0MiB

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Rubenerd Show 213 (Thu 15/Feb/2007)

Berjaya Times Square, Kuala Lumpur Malaysia

The good to be back episode!

Good afternoon Jeff's Plumbing, book review (Britain's answer to Freakonomics: The Under Cover Economist by Tim Harford), John Williams (on Magnatune, Whole Wheat Radio, musical preview of Almond Joy), dropping things, child fantasy, Rubenerd housekeeping (new links, Konqueror), people's funny phone voices, two sets of grandparents, why it was never "Throw A Shrimp On The Barbie" in Australia, huge Kuala Lumpur shopping centre (Berjaya Times Square, photos) and what music isn't evil!

Download MP3 ↓ 30:00 minutes, 13.8MiB

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