My favourite place to hangout with my friends

My favourite place to hangout with my friends are at a restaurant in Sungai Petani that called Lebai Restaurant. We make a point to visit it every time we are in here and recommend it to everyone we know. The menu has a wide variety of food but most people go for the shisha (they have very special shisha and you can even smoke shisha out of a watermelon) and the drinks. What's nice about this restaurant is that it is popular among foreigners especially middle-eastern that have exquisite taste of shisha.If you like outdoor cafes and trees you'll love it! You can go at anytime of the year because they have huge dining space outside that cool the areas where people sit. The seating is so comfortable that you can relax with your friends for hours.If you don't like shisha this is not the place for you... As the smell of a number of different flavors of shisha continually wafts through the air. You can bring children but I would say that it is more of a place to bring older kids and adults than young children.

By: Mohamad Zul Aizat

My favourite places to hangout with friends.

The term “Hipster Cafés” implies trendy cafés which are deemed favorite hangout spots for youngsters usually the Millennials, expecially the Generation Y. From a standpoint, cafés largely serve as centres of social interaction, providing a place for people to gather, talk and chit-chat. However, today the bar to attract attention has been raised manifold.While good atmosphere of a café has become a pre-requisite, customers also expect a high level of creativity in the whole concept as well as quality in the food and drinks served. Though being unique is a factor, balancing it with simplicity is crucial too.

 Cat in the Box

Amber Wong and Muzhir Yusuf are coffee lovers who are passionate about good coffee.  They started off Cat in The Box by providing mobile coffee services, coupled with organisations and gradually built its brand through appearance in events. And now, the “little cat” has moved from a “mobile box” to a physical café, to continue its mission to serve good food and coffees to its customers.

The café was recently relocated to Empire Damansara, on the first floor, right above Gravy Factory. It’s drenched in natural sunlight, bigger, and airier – perfect for photography when the calming view of Damansara Perdana’s suburban foliage through the metres-high windows is at its most impressive. It’s definitely a cozy and warm place to throw a small group gathering with friends. Every weekend at least once a month this place is the most favourite place we love to hangout. We will spend our time almost half a day here and end up going back home late in the night.   

Everytime i came here we must try the Coffee – brewed from the exclusively East Timor beans, farmed using traditionally organic methods, gives you a smooth, nutty, with mild acidity texture. If you like cold coffee, East Timor Cold Brew is a must-try – East Timor beans, cold-brewed for over 24 hours, and served as a latte or Americano. Rich, bold, and smooth. AWESOME!

They even have very talented coffee artists who can make 3D coffee arts that will leave you impressed. Besides coffee beverages, Cat In The Box also offers visitors fruity teas, including lemon and ginger, chamomile and superfruit. As for light food, you may not want to miss out the #TheRoyCohn Sandwich, created specially for the theatre production “Angels in America” by theatrethreesixty.

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My favourite places to hangout with friends.

     Most of the teenagers like me have friends and of course we love to hang out with our friends. Spending time with our friends is not wasting time, as we create new memories that last forever with them. Hangout with friends can also release our tension. I am from Kedah so the places that I love to hangout with my friends was located in Kedah of course,as I didn't found any place to hangout here in Bangi yet.

Amanjaya Mall

     Every weekend at least once a month Amanjaya Mall is the most favourite place we love to hangout. We will spend our time almost half a day here and end up going back home late in the evening. At Amanjaya Mall we enjoy watching movies, play bowling, karaoke and playing games at the arcade.There is a cafe here that become our favourite spot to eat, taking selfies and chit-chat. The cafe name is Blackwood Coffee & Chocolate.

This cafe serves western food, cakes and coffees. The cakes and coffees here are to die for. They are extremely delicious and the cakes that had become my favourite whenever i hang there were 'The Devils Chocolate Cake', 'Pandan Gula Melaka Cake' and its  signature cake that is 'Heavenly Mango Cheesecake'. The price of food and coffees here is affordable equivalent to the taste of cakes and service they provide.

Blackwood Coffee & Chocolate

The Devils Chocolate Cake

Heavenly Mango Cheesecake

    

Pandan Gula Melaka Cake

Taman Jubli Perak

     Besides Amanjaya Mall, we often hangout at this one park that located in the middle of Sungai Petani named Taman Jubli Perak. Eventhough it is located in the middle of the town, whenever you're there, you will feel at ease. There is this long path that takes you throughout the flower garden there and it is very relaxing. At the end of the path is a big pond and we normally hang out there for a while. At the park there is this one stall that sells 'rojak', 'ais kacang', and 'cendol pulut'. I can say that almost of the time the stall is full with customer because the taste of its 'rojak', 'ais kacang', and 'cendol pulut' was one of a kind and I give five out of five stars for the delicious taste. 

Taman Jubli Perak

     To be honest, whenever I hangout with my friends, I don't really care about the place eventhough we hang at a small stall at the roadside. What important to me is with whom was I hangout with, not the place. Whenever I'm with my friends I feel happy and it can make up my mood the whole day. So what I'm going to emphasize is not about the place but about who you spend your time with and the memories that you create with them. Treasure your friends because no one in this world can replace them and the memories that you create with them cannot be bought with money.

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WORLD'S WEIRDEST RESTAURANTS

Call it a trippy twist on Newton’s third law of motion (every action always has an equal and opposite reaction), but some people consider eating in a normal restaurant setting a bit odd. They crave the weird, the crazy; the wrong.

In honour of these people we have collated the world’s weirdest restaurants, where food is served in toilet bowls, by monkeys, in the dark, while suspended high up in the sky.

1.MODERN TOILET RESTAURANT, TAIWAN

Although as civilised adults we don’t like to countenance it more than once a year, there is a correlation between eating and the toilet. Yeah, that’s put you off your cheeseburger hasn’t it? In Taiwan, however, they like to make a virtue of this symbiosis. The Modern Toilet Restaurant deals in commode cuisine: food – curry, noodles etc - is served in toilet bowls and its proved so successful owner Eric Wang has opened a string of similarly themed restaurants. What’s even weirder is that in the restaurant’s toilet you do your business on a plate. Honk, honk.

2. DANS LE NOIR, UNITED KINGDOM

The dark is a wonderful invention (it’s not really an invention is it? Ah well, that’s for another time): great for a bit of slap and tickle; a must for horror films and a panacea for headaches. At the risk of sounding like a conservative bore though, is it the best setting for food? The folk at Dans Le Noir, in London’s Clerkenwell certainly think so. With up to 59 other diners, you can eat your meal – which is a surprise, although you can give them rough instructions – in a blackened room. What’s more, the waiters are blind. It’s meant to completely revolutionize your sense of taste. Hifalutin concepts aside, it doesn’t really sound right to us.

3. ITHAA, MALDIVES

The fact that Ithaa in the picture postcard perfect Maldives has only 12 seats and cost $5 million lends it an air of exclusivity from the outset. However, why it makes this esteemed list is due to its setting, 16 feet below the surface of the Indian Ocean. A 180 degree acrylic see through dome is all that comes between you and a dazzling array of stingrays, butterfly fish and creatures, making it the world’s first aquarium-style underwater eaterie. Good weird, but weird nonetheless.

4. DINNER IN THE SKY, WORLDWIDE

Predictably, if there are those that wish to eat lobster thermidor below the ocean, there will be others that want to chow down on steak tartare up in the sky. Enter stage left (or should that be sky dive from the above plane?) Dinner In The Sky. Having originated in Belgium, the concept has been rolled out worldwide. Guests are seat belted to a table that is attached to crane before being elevated 165 feet in the sky where they hover while enjoying a luxurious meal. How odd.

5. IZAKAYA KAYABUKI, JAPAN

Monkeys are clever little critters. A lot smarter than your average human some might say. They certainly think so over in Japan. So much so that Kaoru Otsuka, owner of the Izakaya Kayabuki in Utsonomiya, hires them to work in his restaurant. Well, we say hires, they’re actually his pets. Insert pay peanuts, get monkeys jibe here.

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Jeans

HISTORY OF JEANS

Jeans story begins in the city of Genoa, in Italy, famous for its cotton corduroy. Jean, a fabric of Genoa at the time was actually very similar to corduroy; Genoa browser start using it to cover and protect their belongings on the dock of the weather.

During the Republic of Genoa, jeans have been exported by sailors throughout the European Genoa. "Gen", the French word for Genoa, could be the origin of the word "jeans". In the French city of Nimes, the weavers are trying to reproduce the perfect fabric, but to no avail. However, the experiment, and through trial and error, they developed again and create twill known as denim, literally "de Nimes". Only at the end of the nineteenth century did jeans arrived in the United States.

A young man named Levi Strauss emigrated in 1851 from Germany to New York to be with her brother, who ran a dry goods store. In 1853 he moved to San Francisco to establish business dry goods themselves.

In 1872, Jacob Davis, a tailor who frequently purchased rivet fabric from Levi Strauss & Co., a wholesaler of home, wrote to Levi asked to work with him to design and sell clothing reinforced with rivets. Davis idea is to use copper rivets to strengthen the pockets and corners in the bottom of the button. After Levi accepted Davis, both man made and design jeans brands in the United States on May 20 1873.

Denim was produced by American textile producers, but legend has it that the original denim pants were obtained from Nimes, France.

TYPES OF JEANS

1. Slim fit or skinny jean

Smaller size starting from thigh to foot. The opening of the extremities in 9 "to 20" depending on the size of the wearer. Right now it's very popular right now, regardless of the gender of a person.

2. Boot-cut

This type has a flat cut in the thigh and ends legs wide. Perfect worn with boots. The bottom of the foot that extends would make the body look beautiful and longer legs.

3. Buckle back

Tight at the top of the foot. Pieces waist a little loose but behind him was given the belt. Comfortably styled and in accordance with body size but loose the waist.

4. Carpenter / Utility

The big pants as baggy pants and underwear comfortable because it's a more casual and relaxed, depending on the wearer. Pants also has many pockets front side is divided.

5. Loose

Jeans design is quite comfortable because the cut is wider at the back and thighs. Usually the top end of the opening leg will be straight or narrowed.

6. Skinny

Suitable for a skinny person to look stylish. The cutting of the jeans follows the shape of the legs and on the opening extremities are usually cut slim and narrow.

7. Straight Cut

Favored by users who like simple pieces. This is the same pants cut from top to bottom. But it's not a straight 



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HAZE

 Haze is an Atmospheric phenomenon where dust, smoke and other dry particles obscure the clarity of the sky.The World Meteorological Organization manual of codes includes a classification of horizontal obscuration into categories of fog, ice fog, steam fog, mist, haze , smoke, volcanic ash, dust, sand, and snow. Sources for haze particles include farming(ploughing in dry weather), traffic, industry, and wildfires.

Seen from afar and depending upon the direction of view with respect to the sun, haze may appear brownish or bluish, while mist tends to be bluish-grey. Whereas haze often is thought of as a phenomenon of dry air, mist formation is a phenomenon of humid air. However, haze particles may act as condensation nuclei for the subsequent formation of mist droplets; such forms of haze are known as ''wet haze.''

The term''haze'', in meteorological literature, generally is used to denote visibility-reducing aerosols of the wet type. Such aerosols commonly arise from complex chemical reactions that occur as sulfur dioxide gases emitted during combustion are converted into small droplets of sulphuric acid. The reactions are enhanced in the presence of sunlight , high relative humidity, and stagnant air flow. A small component  of wet haze aerosols appear to be derived from  compounds released by trees, such as terpenes. For all these reasons, wet haze tends to be primarily a warm-season phenomenon. Large areas of haze covering many thousands of kilometers may be produced under favorable conditions each summer.

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BEST RESTAURANT AT BANGI

Bandar Baru Bangi is now becoming a food heaven with new restaurants mushrooming everywhere in the suburb of KL. You can find a lot of new cafe and restaurants around here.Today, I would like to share with you some of the best restaurant than always full with customer almost all day and night. 

Ana Ikan Bakar Bangi (Section 15)

Heard that this restaurant famous for their 'petai' grilled fish. It was tasty but for some, it might not be that favorable due to strong adore of 'petai'.Salted egg crabs (2 pcs), butter prawns (6 pcs of big prawns), a bowl of seafood tomyam, and a 'petai' grilled kerapu fish, with 2 plate of plain rice only for RM125 but for a student like me we usually just order some basic menu which is fikan bakar (any fish) in a banana leaf with petai and accompanying sauces, squid in butter, King prawns, baby kailan, tom yam soup and steamed rice. It turned out to be an excellent choice and cost us just RM88 for three people. 

Persiaran Kemajuan (Bandar Baru Bangi),

Bangi, Selangor 43650

SUP URAT KETIN(SECTION 7) 

Sup urat ketin is one of the famous food at bangi. This restaurant at Section 7 Bandar Baru Bangi. Quite easy to find this restaurant actually, when you pass the Tol Bangi, first roundabout take a 12 o’ clock way, second roundabout also take 12 o’ clock, same goes to third roundabout also take 12 o’clock way. The price is very affordable. RM7 only for a bowl of sup ketin. Others than sup ketin they also have satay urat ketin. The taste is not bad just fine but if you're satay lover you gonna love it for sure. This two is the special menu there but they also have a nasi goreng, bihun sup and etc. I once try their cheesecake. Taste delicious but not sure its still available or not now. Last i went there about a years ago. 

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