Almost as if he had some sort of karmic connection with Far Eastern culture, Ruizendaal majored in sinology at the University of Leiden after graduating from high school. Little did he realize that learning Chinese would turn out to be such a nightmare.
和東方文化彷彿有宿世因緣的羅斌，中學畢業後，進入荷蘭萊登大學主修漢學，沒想到學中文對羅斌而言，竟是一場噩夢。