Much of the credit goes to Ruizendaal's maternal grandfather, a great aficionado of Eastern culture who was captain of an ocean freighter, plying trade routes between Indonesia, China and Japan.
這一切，都要歸功他喜愛東方文化的外祖父。羅斌的外祖父曾擔任「爪哇．中國．日本航線」旗下的遠洋商船船長，也因此長期居留印尼，直到 1945 年二次大戰結束。