Fancy a roti canai and a teh tarik for RM1 – right in the heart of the city and in these tough economic times?
That is what you will get over at the Ukhwah Restoran Rakyat 1Malaysia in busy Lorong Medan Tuanku Satu (located next to Prescott Inn).
A piece of roti canai at the outlet costs 40 sen and a glass of teh tarik is priced at 60 sen.
The restaurant, run by Koperasi Pendidikan Islam Malaysia Bhd, or known as Ukhwah, is not profit-oriented.
The actual cost of making a roti canai is 20 sen, and by selling it at 40 sen, Ukhwah President, Datuk Rahim Baba says he still makes a 100% profit.
On the teh tarik, he makes a profit of 18 sen by selling it at 60 sen a glass.
To break even, the restaurant needs RM2,000-a-day or RM45,000-a-month in sales to cover the fixed costs of the RM7,000 rental per month for the premises and the salary of the 16 staff members, who are all locals.
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Malaysians have been asked to walk 10,000 steps a day as part of their healthy lifestyle regime.
Health Minister Seri Datuk Liow Tiong Lai said the 10,000-steps-a-day campaign was intended to push the people to improve their health by walking more and reducing their intake of unhealthy food.
Liow said his ministry had introduced a system whereby the people could determine whether they practised an active or sedentary lifestyle.
If you walk less than 5,000 steps per day, then you are considered to have a sedentary lifestyle. If you walk 7,500 to 10,000 steps you are considered somewhat active.
You are physically active when you walk more than 10,000 steps daily, which is equivalent to six to seven kilometres of walking per day, and you burn up to 400 calories from your body.
If you work on the 12th floor in your workplace, then you should stop the lift at the ninth floor and walk up. It’s even better if you walk all the way up
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NASA released newly restored videos Thursday of two U.S. astronauts taking the world's first steps on the moon.
The images were released just four days before the 40th anniversary of the historic event that captivated the world on July 20, 1969.
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Below is a list of ten of the most popular reasons given by conspiracy theorists who believe the Apollo Moon landings that began 40 years ago were faked.
1) When the astronauts are putting up the American flag it waves. There is no wind on the Moon.
2) No stars are visible in the pictures taken by the Apollo astronauts from the surface of the Moon.
3) No blast crater is visible in the pictures taken of the lunar landing module.
4) The landing module weighs 17 tons and yet sits on top of the sand making no impression. Next to it astronauts’ footprints can be seen in the sand.
5) The footprints in the fine lunar dust, with no moisture or atmosphere or strong gravity, are unexpectedly well preserved, as if made in wet sand.
6) When the landing module takes off from the Moon’s surface there is no visible flame from the rocket.
7) If you speed up the film of the astronauts walking on the Moon’s surface they look like they were filmed on Earth and slowed down.
8) The astronauts could not have survived the trip because of exposure to radiation from the Van Allen radiation belt.
9) The rocks brought back from the Moon are identical to rocks collected by scientific expeditions to Antarctica.
10) All six Moon landings happened during the Nixon administration. No other national leader has claimed to have landed astronauts on the Moon, despite 40 years of rapid technological development.
What do you think? Were the Moon landings faked? What evidence is there to support or defend your view?
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The photograph, taken by Richard Heeks, of Exeter, shows a soap bubble with one half still perfectly formed while the other shatters in a distinctive pattern of streaks.
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According to research hearing the words 'I love you' is worth £163, 424 in monetary value. [Read more]
Is your toilet full of limescale and other nasty stains and you don't have a chemical toilet cleaner on hand? Or are you looking for less expensive and/or non-toxic cleaning solutions? Don't worry, just reach for the fridge, and grab a Coke!
Step 1, Pour a can or bottle of Coke into the bowl. Pour it around the rim so it flows over the stains around the inside of the bowl.
Step 2, Let it sit for an hour or more. The carbonic, citric, and phosphoric acids in the Coke will break down stains. For extra cleaning power, let the Coke sit in the toilet overnight.
Step 3, Clean the toilet with a brush (optional).
Step 4, Flush. The stains will be gone!
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It was only three months ago that Facebook announced that it had reached 200 million users worldwide. Now, CEO Mark Zuckerberg says the social network has passed 250 million active users. And back in January it was just 150 million.
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Panda USB Vaccine is a free solution designed to protect against malware spreading through USB drives. It offers a double layer of preventive protection, allowing users to disable the AutoRun feature on computers as well as on USB drives and other devices.
The traditional throwing of a bride's bouquet for luck ended in disaster at an Italian wedding when the flowers caused a plane to crash.
The bride and groom had hired a small plane to fly past and throw the bouquet to a line of women guests, Corriere della Sera reported.
However, the flowers were sucked into the plane's engine causing it to catch fire and explode.
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