Rubénerd :)

Reuters: Has the Times Square bomb scare in New York City made you rethink your travel plans?

No.

Anyone who’s changed their minds, I’d be more than happy to take your flight and hotel reservations off your hands. Visit RubenSchade.com for my contact details. Cheers.

This is a public service announcement for people who discuss aviation. It is "Malaysia Airlines" and NOT "Malaysian Airlines". Can you tell the difference?

Referring to it as Malaysian Airlines on your website doesn’t do much for your aviation credibility, especially considering the correct spelling is in the logo! Ditto for Qantas. Don’t worry, even high profile sites like Dynamic Business Australia are guilty of it.

Usually I’m okay with flights, but the combined jetlag from a turbulent redeye and a late morning connection rendered me utterly incapable of doing anything productive. I try to blog at least once a day though, so I decided to comment on this K-On image now circulating.

I ask you, how can you possibly have Shine without Mugi?! She’s the best character! Perhaps she’s holding the camera. Can you get handheld piano cameras? I suppose that’d be an accordion camcorder, or an accamcorder. Hey, I like that, accamcorder. I should write an accamcorder iPhone app.

For [sad face] family reasons I’ll be zipping back to Singapore for a fortnight tomorrow. I booked a convoluted route that had the effect of reducing both the airfare and probably my sanity by half. It’ll be Adelaide → Melbourne → Kuala Lumpur → Singapore.

The irony is, my sister flies to Melbourne quite often, and it takes her less time to get there from the Adelaide Airport than it does for me to get home from the airport using public transport. Adelaide Airport really needs one of these.

See you in two weeks Adelaide peeps. Hey, that almost rhymed.

Just came back this evening from our (brief) trip to KL, as evidenced from the view from our hotel window above! I lived here in 2007-08 so it was good to go to all my old haunts. Will be posting proper photos and whatnot later this week.

We’ve got Tuesday in Singapore (going to make the most of it), then 09:00 on Wednesday morning I’m back to Adelaide to face those "people" at that university. Can’t wait.

With that in mind they’re will probably be a further interruption to your regularly scheduled blog posts here. If you feel the urge to read more Ruben sanctioned nonsense, feel free to browse the archive or barring that visit any of the fine folks on the site sidebar. They’re far more interesting, succinct, eloquent and funny than me anyway.

Danke schön, see you on the other side ^_^.

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

I spent most of today frantically packing, paying bills and buying salami for my dad for my trip back home to The Singapores, but I figured I could spare a bit of time to show you the incredibly sophisticated WebJet map my online flight booking provided. I suppose when I read the awe inspired description with a fancy service name to boot I was expecting something a little more… fancy? :)

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Given I spend so much time at the Boatdeck Cafe programming and drinking their amazing coffee I’d noticed the owner Joe Karem hadn’t been there for a while since I came back. Turns out he didn’t divulge himself of his shares after all, he was on holidays in Lebanon around the same time as I was back in Singapore but stayed there longer.

Lebanon is on my ever expanding laundry list of places I want to visit because Beirut has some amazing architecture and cultural sights, but mostly because I love Lebanese food! The best Lebanese I’ve had in Australia was in a kebab stall in Canberra of all places, in South-East Asia I had a great lunch at the Alamanda shopping centre in Putrajaya. Does being a capital ensure you have good Lebanese food, is that it?

I’d be interested to hear what people reckon is the best place to get it in Adelaide, I admit now I’m having insane cravings!

As I eluded in the previous post where I was talking about eBay nonsense, earlier this week I spent two days and one night back in Kuala Lumpur. Doing errands mostly, nothing too exciting.

One thing I was able to do in the spare time before we boarded the bus back was to go to The Ikano Power Centre in Damansara. Because my family lived here from 2006-07 my dad and I often went there to pick up IKEA furniture and we’d always grab a bite to eat at the Norwegian sandwich shop. They desperately need to open a franchise in Singapore, their salmon sandwiches are incredible and the outdoor atmosphere was great.

It’s funny the things we remember isn’t it? Going through my blog archives here for example I remember I talked a lot about internet and phone problems in Malaysia. Also funny that the design of this site hasn’t changed much at all since then either.

We moved back to Singapore in June 2007.