10:00 – MadPlayer troubles (lagtime, eating batteries), trapped aliens, Japanese living forever, food culture ("Westerners" can’t take durian, "Asians" can’t take aged cheese), Ruben accents rant (Americans, Kiwis, Aussies, how the accents evolve so damned fast?) and what ever happened to Dr. Marvin Monroe from the Simpsons?

10:00 – Listener email (Eugene on the cute girl in Starbucks), another John Howard Joke (the Bonsai, what’s your IQ?), using Gizmo (username: rubenerd), listener audio (Felix Tanjono, coming up with idea for the Rubenerd Show), playing My Cubicle (hilarious parody of James Blunt’s "You’re Beautiful"), and Ruben trying out "singing".

10:00 – Boasting girl on the train claiming to be able speak Italian, Indonesian and "Chinese", swearing in Singaporean Hokkien, another Sorry State of Aussie TV rant (commercial late night news programs, Channel 10’s pathetic "Sports Tonight" program, Lateline on Channel 9). Ran out of time for listener mail, I apologise!

10:00 – Ruben trying to speak Mandarin, talking to a Chinese high school girl in Starbucks (Japanese school uniforms not suited to the cold), Adelaide weather (freezing, the "heat factor"), high school not best years of my life (local Singaporean girls at work nicer), another John Howard Joke, and is drinking coffee masculine and macho?

10:00 – Housekeeping (Rubenerd Blog update, hits), dropping speakers, getting a call from Israel Brown from Crap and Stuff, and unfortunate community church number, and a John Howard joke! Bit of audio overdrive distortion this episode, I’m correcting for tomorrow’s episode.

13:00 – Jotting show notes on my Blackberry, the Adelaide Metro 229 bus, Chimpanzee tickets, living in Pooraka, great Western food and coffee in Singapore, the 6 Singapore C’s, visting the Thea Tea Relaxing Chinese Tea Room in Rundle Mall, and Ruben makes an ass of himself doing the Chinese Tea Rap!

10:00 – The woes of tech phone calls in the middle of a shower (THS-K host, not good lah), girls asking for computer favours at school who would not normally associate with you, installing Singaporean StarHub MaxOnline on a MacBook and etiquette in regards to free help (computer nerds, mechanics, pharmacists etc).

10:00 – Bit of Rubenerd Housekeeping (transferring RubenerdShow.com domain complete, moving to new webhost), blog software subscriptions versus podcast clients, sorry state of reality television in Australia (Channel 7 and 9 fun, Channel 10 sucks, tired and worn out) and the Rubenerd Ultimate Reality Television Show!

10:00 – S/Atom versus email newsletters, useless emails and spam (eBay Australia, the new "PayPal Australia Newsletter", poor grammar, CafePress not unsubscribing), a Caucasian Guy at a Chinese Barbecue (Crystal’s birthday) comparing east Asian barbecues to Aussie Barbies (labeled cups, soft drink instead of alcohol) and Mr Vampire from Hong Kong.

10:00 – University has officially got hard again (computer science, economics), Australian coffee chains reacting to Starbucks with patriotism, school years starting at the beginning of the year, The Top Five (Signs you’re listening to a bad podcast) MadPlayers eating lithium batteries, and what a podcaster can pick up for four bucks.