Hello everyone omg. I really nearly fell asleep on my bed while using my phone awhile ago!!!

I kept on dozing off and I don't want to sleep or take a nap now because I know, for sure later at night I confirm cannot fall asleep and I'll sleep in the morning again. Cannot! I'm trying my best to keep myself awake, so here I am blogging! I think the reason why I feel so tired is because I slept at around 5am yesterday and woke up around 9am to go MOP for filming today. Super tired zzzzz....

Yeah, I will sleep early tonight! Cannot take it already hahaha! Anyway, the whole family went out to have a simple birthday dinner to celebrate mummy's birthday weeks back!!! And I'm happy to know that Goldleaf New Taiwan Porridge Restaurant is hosting us for mummy's birthday dinner! :D


At first when I first see the name, I thought they only serve porridge or something like that lol. But I was wrong, their food was really delicious and nope, not just porridge... they have dishes that you guys always eat out at "zhi char" stalls! But personally, I feel that theirs is better and with a better environment (got aircon, so not hot/oily/stuffy)! Also, when I check out their price, it's pretty affordable as well!

The price is like comparable to what we always eat out at "zhi char" stalls, yet with a better environment and ambience!! So it is really not bad and most importantly, we all agreed that their food is really yummy! So overall, we had a super satisfying dinner!! 4 of us went home feeling full and happy! :D

Alright, time for pictures!! Loads of food pictures to make you all hungry hahahaha!




Yay! Start off with a family selfie shot while we wait for our food! :D




And also my individual selfie shot lololol.




Then the dishes starts coming!!! This is 3‐Cup Chicken With Basil!




Traditional Prawn Roll! So crispy! *crunch crunch*




Braised Pork With Preserved Vegetables!




Fresh Cockles which is super fresh omg! Love it!




Stir‐Fried Taiwan Lettuce With Garlic!




Pan‐Fried Cod Fillet with Goldleaf Sauce! I love to eat fish alot (unlike Ran) so I really love this dish because the fish is so tender and nice! Like melts in my mouth lol! Even Ran also think it's nice!




Me taking the fresh cockles hahaha!




Volcano Beancurd with Kong Poh Chicken!




Chai Poh Omelette!




Goldleaf Fried Rice! Lol by now can you believe that we actually ate this much omg!




Lime Juice which mummy love! I had hot barley!




Goldleaf Pork Ribs! One of their new dishes!




They are super sweet! They say they gonna serve Oyster Mee Sua for mummy because it's her birthday! Because usually for Chinese, they will have Mee Sua on their (Chinese) birthday one!

Though we are not celebrating her Chinese birthday but it's quite sweet thought of them!




Sambal Seabass Fillet! One of their new dish too!




And finally..... desserts time!!! I love the red tea and green tea jelly!




Picture time again after we are done with dinner! With daddy!




The birthday girl! Hahaha! Eh! Not girl, should be aunty hahahaha! :p




With Ran! :)




One last group photo before we left the restaurant!
We really enjoyed our dinner and thanks to Goldleaf New Taiwan Porridge Restaurant for hosting us and serving us all their delicious food for my mummy's birthday! :D Hope to go back again soon! Next time I'll bring my grandma and grandpa there! I'm sure they will also love all the food! Can't wait!


Goldleaf New Taiwan Porridge Restaurant
110 Amoy Street #01-00 Sing' 069930
Tel: 6324 3268

p/s: Oh! And from now till 30 September 2013, they are also happy to extend 10% off bill to all dine-in customers upon quoting my name "typicalben" when making payment! :) Happy eating! (only applicable for food, with minimum spending of $50)


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This is what happen to the pot of maggie mee that I cooked earlier! :(
Earlier just now, I suddenly got a huge craving for maggie mee lol! I think it's been quite some time since I eaten it already, that's why! And since I haven't had my dinner, I thought I can go cook it and eat first while waiting for mummy to come back home with more food! Everything was perfect, not until the moment that I have to bring the super hot pot near to the sink area to pour the noodles in my bowl.....

I don't know what happen next, just when I was about to pour my noodles into my bowl.... BAMMMMM! The whole pot fell into the sink, and there you go! It ends up exactly how it looks from the picture above! -_- I guess I was too scared that the pot might burnt me or something or actually I'm not really sure! Damn! I nearly wanted to slap myself, because I've to recook it wtf. AND I WAS SO HUNGRY AT THAT MOMENT. So I have no choice but to recook again another pot zzzzzzz.....


Actually what's really funny is the replies I got from Twitter (from you guys lah) when I tweeted about this incident with the picture. Make me wanna laugh lololol! Some of the tweet replies like;

"did a hurricane just come and go??"

"LOL i suppose there was a "strong wind" and blew your noodles away HAHAHAHA"

"WHAT HAVE YOU BEEN DOING BEN"

Hahahaha! It kinda made me rolled my eyes alil but it's quite funny leh I feel. You guys are the best lah! Anyway, gonna go sleep now because tomorrow got to film #BenRanAway video over at MOP! :D

Goodnight! New entry again tomorrow, I promiseeeeeeeee k! :)


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Yay! Finally met up with Irene weeks back!
It's been so super long since I last saw her, I think it was like.... 4-5 years back???? Wtf. If you guys started reading my blog since my polys days, you would have know that I know her through my internship and she was with the company and supervising me! Years back she went back to Malaysia to get married and started her own family, so it's really hard for us to meet up anymore but we still got keep in contact!

Then she texted me recently telling me that she was coming back to Singapore for "holiday" and we probably could meet up and so we did! Had alot of fun catching up with her and chatting with her! Miss her so much! She is super nice to me ever since she knww me and is still super nice to me until now lolol.




We went to have Japanese food! :D




Delicious grilled meat!




Cha soba for me!




Grilled chicken skin (the most bottom one)! I love the chicken skin, so crispy yummy!




A picture together after we finished our food! :D




She even gave me this packet of cookies that she baked herself!! So sweet omg!!




And the cookies is in Hello Kitty design (not that I like Hello Kitty but it's still cute eh)!! It's really an awesome catch up with her and I can't wait to see her again!! Thanks Irene!!! I will miss you!!!

Anyway, sorry for not blogging as much as I want to because ever since I lost my laptop, it's really hard for me to blog properly! :( But I'll try to update again tomorrow still okay!! And and and.... I just did my hair yesterday and changed my hair colour (I actually did the colour before). If you wanna know what colour it is, just head over to my Instagram to check it out!! Alright, till tomorrow! Byeeeeeeeeee!!! :D


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Went to do touch up my hair to a lighter shade of brown with some highlights and also for a hair cut over at CLEO Hair & Make which is located at PARCO Marina Bay (opposite Marina Square)! And I must say that I'm very happy with the service and hospitality when I was there! :D Made me feel like home!

All the stylist there are all Japanese and there will be a translator there to translate for you on your requests and ideas! My hairstylist is 'Ai' and she's really nice and sweet omg. But I didn't took any pictures with her this time round eh! -_- Hahahaha! Will do so the next visit! Which is soon!! I can't wait!!




Went for a lighter shade of brown and also had a hair cut so my hair is not so thick and heavy!




Doing highlights! I just wanna do some dark coloured highlights so it's not so boring, you know!




With qiuqiu who was also doing hair that day! Thanks to her for "liaising" as well! :D




Close up of my hair and you can see the different mixture of colours by the highlights!




Another close up! Hahaha! I didn't really took much pictures this time round but guess what!!! I will do so the next time cause I'm gonna dye back one of my favourite colour of all time soon!!!!! Yay!!!:D
CLEO Hair and Make
Millenia Walk, P2-09 (Level 2) PARCO Marina Bay
Tel: 6338 5250


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Dinner with bff, Zj after that! He waited for me for about 3 hours lololol! Really is bff HAHA!




Alright! I'll blog again tomorrow about my Nicki Minaj perfume omgzzz. BYE!

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Seriously, I lost my laptop on Wednesday night! :(

It's like the most expensive thing that I ever lose in my life wtf. Usually I'm pretty careless but still, I never ever lose any important or valuable stuff before.... Okay, other than my SD memory card which is considered as valuable since there are alot of raw pictures of me lololol and I up till now I still don't understand why that person will wanna steal my memory card because I lost it together with my camera pouch which, in the end they did returned the camera pouch to the lost & found. I just don't get it.


Anyway, as I said it's the most expensive item that I ever lost but it's really not so much of the laptop that I'm sad about (partly because it's also quite cheap, I bought it at less than $700. But I'm still sad lah, it's money still hello!!!). It's all my files, documents and software that are inside my laptop. It's all gone.

Luckily, I always transfer all my pictures to my hard disk straight from my camera every single time and so there are no much pictures of me in my laptop. But I still think there are important files which are work related (blog) that are in there that might be very confidential and probably some other files which are important as well. So I'm fine with the person stealing my laptop as long as the person went back home to reformat the whole thing without looking through all my stuff or say the worse, uploading them.


If you wanna know the whole full detailed story, here you go......

In the morning when I woke up for school, I decided to bring my laptop out because I'm meeting my airforce mates in the evening and I thought I could do some school projects and also blog an entry while waiting for them since I end school at 3pm and we are meeting in the evening after 7pm.

Right. But I woke up late and it was raining heavily, so I decided to cab to school with JJ cause she's late as well. Then I remember when I took out my laptop to use in class, I still tell JJ that "I cannot imagine if my laptop get lost, all my stuff will be gone". Yah, I did said that out of sudden for no reason wtf.

It's super creepy I tell you. I got no idea why would I say that! Then when the lesson ended, I went to Jurong to make my specs then I head to The Star Vista over at Buona Vista. After walking around to find a place to settle down to do my work while waiting for my friends, I end up in a cafe which I still posted this photo on my Twitter and Facebook when I was using my lappy and having my drinks and bites there.




Yes, this is the very last time I used my laptop before it's gone!
One of my friend then came, so I packed up and had dinner with him while waiting for the rest to arrive. And when all arrived, one of them said he wanted to have Subway, okay so we went. After finding a table for us, I then placed my laptop pouch on the chair together with my bag pack while I'm sitting in front of them. We were then talking so happily, catching up and all before we left for desserts.

AND THIS IS THE TIME WHEN I FORGOTTEN TO TAKE MY LAPTOP FML. So yeah.


We left and went to the toilet (I'm saying this because I thought I left in it the toilet but both of my friends say they didn't see me carrying it or placing it anywhere in the toilet so... okay because since 2 person said they didn't see me carrying it means I really didn't lost it at the toilet) after that we went to a cafe and it's only when we ordered our desserts and drinks then I realise my laptop is not with me!!!!!

At first I thought maybe it's my airforce mates that pulled a prank on me but I then found out then it's not by their super shocked and worried expression. So I went back to both the toilet and Subway but it's not there anymore. I checked with the Subway staff and they said they didn't see any orange laptop pouch when they are cleaning the table. I was so stressed up I really hope everything is a dream or a prank.




My laptop is inside this orange pouch when I left it over at Subway. :(




Picture of my laptop that I took when I first gotten it. I only used it for less than 9 months! :(

In the meantime, I also tweeted few tweets about the lost of my laptop on my Twitter while I was searching for it and hopefully the person who took it saw or something and will return it to me........

I LOST MY LAPTOP IN THIS POUCH OVER AT THE STAR VISTA (BOUNA VISTA). CONTACT ME IF YOU SAW IT! HELP RT PLS! pic.twitter.com/vAAvG3KXqQ

— Typicalben (@typicalben) August 14, 2013

I LOST MY LAPTOP OVER AT THE STAR VISTA (BOUNA VISTA) SUBWAY. ANYONE WHO SAW IT PLEASE RETURN IT TO ME!! HELP RT PLEASE!! :(

— Typicalben (@typicalben) August 14, 2013

Thank you guys for all the retweets, manually retweets, tweets or any help that you guys had given me at that point of them. I'm just very lucky and blessed to have all your support, care and concern.

So since I couldn't find my laptop, I left my contact details and reported the incident to not only the Subway staff, but to the information counter and as well as the security guard. I demanded to see the cctv but they say they couldn't let me see because it's in the "record mode" and they say they will check it the next day. So nevermind, I cabbed home after that and I was feeling pretty down + worried + stress + sad at the same time. Yes, all of these feelings combined together. It's pretty much a very 'sian' feeling lah for losing something that is so important. I just lie down there on my desk and don't even feel like showering.


Then when I was in bed (after washing up), I couldn't sleep still so I went to login my dropbox to change the password on my phone (that is the only one that I forgotten to change) and guess what I saw!!!!

My laptop was online 3 hours ago as stated on my dropbox linked devices. Because whenever my laptop is connected to the internet, my dropbox will automatically sync and goes online which means the person who stole my laptop actually did on my laptop and went ONLINE with it wtf. Ridiculous right.

And I can actually see the IP address of the person who is using my laptop on the dropbox website as well. So I immediately took it down and I tried to track using some IP tracking website which I found from Google and it's near Esplanade area and the person is using Singtel wireless boardband. So I thought okay, I'm gonna go make police report the next day when I wake up. Oh yah, and by now you must have realise that I didn't set any password for my laptop thus the person can actually used my laptop -_- Sigh.

A lesson learnt! You guys all faster go set password for your laptop now okay!!!!


So yesterday afternoon, Ran accompanied me to the police station (omg I have the best brother ever) and we made a police report which is close to about an hour. And I told them every single details including the IP address thing, so I really hope they will be able to find that nasty person who took my laptop and don't wanna return to lost & found and still got the guts to go online with it somemore!!! They considered this as a theft case and they said they will contact me if there's any news.




Mosaic with iPhone app because I got no laptop nor I have photoshop omg kill me please!

So now all I can do is wait, but not saying I'm being negative or what but honestly speaking.... I think it's very hard to find back my laptop because most likely the person had already reformatted my laptop for his/her own usage or sell it away already. I mean if they really sincerely wanna return... they would have done so and pass it to the Subway staff or information counter staff right on the spot!

But guess what? No, the person took it away to so far away to like Esplanade area and go online with it. Good job! Means the person have no intention of returning (I might be wrong but I think the possibility of me getting wrong is 5%) and although I must also admit that it's my fault for being careless this time round. I'll be more careful next time and I'll put my laptop in my bag and not carrying it on my hands anymore!


Now, I do not have a laptop to use. No photoshop, no nothing omg. But luckily I edited some pictures and already uploaded them so probably I still can update few more entries though.

SIGH. CAN SOMEONE BUY OR GIVE ME A LAPTOP NOW ALREADY! *PUPPY EYES*

Okay fine, I guess puppy eyes doesn't work everytime lololol. You guys better take care of your stuff and don't be so careless like me ah. Anyway, do share with me your story!!!!!! I would love to know what stuff you guys had ever lost or misplaced before. No matter it's expensive or not, or whatever stuff that you guys lost and misplaced before, do let me know by leaving it down at the comments below!

I'll see you guys in my next entry! Love ya all! ;)


Life must go on no matter what, no point being sad about things that have already happened.


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Wooohooooo!!!!! Happy birthday to my dearest mummy!!!!!!! ♥

It's my mum's birthday today and we are going out to have a simple dinner later! And by simple, I mean it's a really simple dinner cause we are gonna have porridge lololol (but is yummy one lah). But who cares as long as we are all having it together as a family right? No matter how expensive or exquisite the cuisine are, eating without the people you love on your birthday will be really boring and not delicious at all!

And anyway, if you didn't realise (which is fairly impossible).... I've change my blog banner!!!!!!!

I'm getting super super sick of my previous blog banner because it's getting really old, as in the picture that is being used! It's like 2 years ago one!!! I also don't look like that anymore, plus I also don't have blonde hair too! Hahaha! Although I think I might be going blonde again soon!!!!! What do you all think???





Brunch with bff, Zj weeks back! :D




Non stop having breakfast menu for our brunch and dinner lol!




With Zj! And we stopped halfway over at a overhead bridge to snap pictures lololol!




Selfieeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!




Dinner time! I'm having this roasted chicken with mushroom chardonnay sauce!




Zj and his love for croissant...
I know all my entries are pretty short lately and nothing much is happening to me lololol.. MUNDANE LIFE CAN ANOT. So I got nothing to rant about or many pictures to post up!! But who knows, my life might just get exciting starting from tomorrow! HAHAHAHAHA! Anyway, my room is super messy!!! I'm so lazy to pack!!! My whole table is like piling up with tons and tons of random stuff! HELP!!! :(

Okay fine. I'll blog again tomorrow! Let me know if you guys want me to blog about any stuff yeah!


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Hello!!! :D I've been really lazy these few days, not doing any work (be it blog or school related) but watching MasterChef Season 4 and ANTM Cycle 20 whenever I'm free or either that, going out to chill with my friends! Hahahaha! I think the only thing that I'm hardworking at, is updating my Instagram hahahaha! But today I'm going to try to complete my school assignment after I blog finish this entry wooohooo!

Just gonna leave you guys with some picturesssssssssssssssssssssssssss okay! :D





Went to meet Isaac to chill the other day and took some photos after that! Really love this candid shot of me bursting into laughter! I swear it's really natural and not posing for the camera hahaha!




I miss my thick hair already! :/ Yes, I recently went to cut my hair!




Was using #BenRanAway tote bag that day! :D
Cute right! Only me and Ran has it! MOP specially printed it for us!




*wide smile with mouth closed* :)




Accidental shot!




The video Isaac took for me that day on Instagram! For those who haven't watch it, here you go!





Starbucks! :D



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Yay show you guys my new phone case from covermybagel, I love it because the quality is really good like it's not those rubbery kind which will be very loose on your phone! It fits tightly and nicely!




Can go check them out at covermybagel.com for their full range of new collection!



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Japanese spaghetti for dinner again! Yum yum!




Mine!!! Lobster bisque spaghetti!




Brought my lappy out to do some work and at the same time chill! :D




Drinks! Avocado vanilla milkshake for me!




Duck confit pie for my early supper! Hahaha!
Okay, I go do my school assignment already! I'll blog again tomorrow okay? :D Byeeeeeeeee!


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