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Every month or so, my grandma will give us some free range eggs and sometimes chickens too. Not to forget some fresh fruit she has so lovingly planted and harvested! All ala natural and pesticide free.

All  because my grandma has a barn which is situated directly beside her house.  In this day and time I think its not easy keeping a barn when all of these produce are mass produced everywhere for bulk consumption. The cost benefit analysis of the time and patience also far outweighs growing your own. I think its incredible that my grandma, who is about 75 years old this year is still able to maintain her barn so well and this has really kept her healthy through the years.

Some hens running about freely. These are the best free range chickens you can ever find as they’re given ample space to run around and tlc from my grandma. These chickens are actually pretty tame and will eat out of your hand when you feed them, how cool is that? Anyone fancy a pet chicken?

Those little red things – dont know what they’re called actually, but they’re used to store drinking water for  the chickens. Many of you city kids might never have seen them before, thats why I’m sharing with photo with you!


Cute cat, surprisingly, cat and the chickens live together in perfect harmony and are best of friends. What a simple life, hehe!

More photos of the barn. I think its very special and pretty unusual these days to be able to experience village life. With the world moving towards modernization and sky scrapers filling the sky, many kids nowadays will not know of village life or anything beyond their favorite hangout spot or shopping center, which is really sad. There’s so much to gain from taking a step back from the hustle and bustle of the city, away from the rat race, escape into the countryside, into the village. Fresh produce, clean air, better standard of living, everything is pure and natural.



I present to you my super grandma in action! She’s trying to pluck some rambutans for us with a long rod with a knife at the end – in Malay its called galah, not sure about the proper English word

Juicy red rambutans on the tree! Salivating just looking at them.

Grandma is in the process of removing the red ants from the scrumptious rambutans for us to savour as we’re all waiting impatiently, hehe!

Last but not least, rambutans up close.  Dont they look tempting?



This post is for dedicated to my grandma and to all grandmas out there, you are awesome!

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BOH ada Ummph!

The BOH Tea Plantation,  located at Cameron Highlands is the largest tea plantation in Malaysia making it Malaysia’s largest black tea manufacturer. We pay a visit to this famous BOH Tea plantation to see for ourselves!

This the is BOH tea plantation which as you can see, is situated in a valley, surrounded by acres and acres of, you guessed it, TEA!  The settlements you see are of the BOH tea workers where they eat, breathe and pick TEA!

This stylish glass enclosure is the BOH Tea cafe. Enjoy a hot cuppa with the cool breeze caressing your face whilst enjoying a 360 degree view of lush greenery. Perfect on a lazy afternoon.

Afternoon cuppa done, time for portraits, we’ll start with the ladies…:)

And the gentlemen…well, the pose looks oddly familiar…i’ll leave you to figure

My lovely family, with the exception of Dennis who is currently studying in Birmingham. Gotta love the breathtaking green hills of the BOH plantation behind us!

Last but not least, a group photo as we say goodbye to Cameron Highlands!

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Cameron Highlands certainly provided a breath of freshness from the hustle and bustle of the city.

After checking into our accommodation, the first thing on our mind was FOOD!  Which couldn’t get any fresher than this farmer’s garden.

Workers could be seen watering the cabbages by hand.

Pesticide free cabbages anyone?

The modern farm girl with her cabbages!

Macro shot of the cabbages from ground level. Little cabbages look like little tuffs of grass!

Cabbages in full bloom waiting to be harvested. Err.. on second thought, it doesn’t quite look like cabbage actually…

A unique take on a strawberry farm with awesome lighting.

More takes on the strawberry farm.

Strawberries and cherry tomatoes. So red and vivid you can almost taste the sweetness just by looking at them!

Strawberries anyone?

Strawberry picking. Happy mates demonstrating how its done! Pluck now, pay later! Not sure about those which get consumed along the process

We are done with our strawberries plucking, so its time for some photos.

Me and my lovely mummy

Cheer you up with some strawberries.

Random – my brother who still loves Ultraman!

Lovely couple whose been together since high school, impressive!

Last but not least, here are some fresh strawberries to tickle your taste buds. haha. Stay tuned!

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To my dearest girlfriend Sharon, happy birthday to you and I hope you’ll have an awesome birthday.

Here are some of the portrait photos I took while we were in Singapore.

lots of love,

Chee Wei

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The groom has arrived, bet he is really excited.

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Finally, it snowed in December, never expect it to snow in London during my short trip back to London.

Some shots outside my place.

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It is 3AM in UK now and I am still not asleep yet. I’m in one of the hotels in Bristol. It’s one of the coolest place I have stayed in. Just imagine that there is a 24″ iMac in every guest room! Maybe it doesn’t bother you much. Anyway, I am writing this from my own mac that I brought along.

A few things happened today, my manfrotto tripod has been stolen when me and my girlfriend were on the train to Bristol to visit one of her good friends. This great tripod has been serving me for about 2 years. Very sturdy and it works great when it comes to night shots. I hope the person who took it actually knows what it is for and does not mistake it for a coat hanger or something.haha.

Anyway, just some updates, me and my girlfriend went to Munich, Germany last weekend. It was quite a nice German city compared to Berlin, we had all sorts of German wurst (sausages) and pork knuckles almost everyday. Will post some photos soon.

I think its time for bed now, otherwise I think I’ll miss tomorrow’s breakfast at the restaurant in the lobby. I will update my blog more often! haha I hope I am able to keep my promises this time haha.

Oh by the way, my family adopted a new puppy! Its a ‘golden labrador’. I’ll just show one photo of her now.

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I have heard many people saying that Singapore is a very small place and you could easily bump into your friends. I never quite believe that because its not even easy to meet any of my friends around KL. That’s not until I stumble into Eunice from Travelerfolio.com at Bugis Junction. It was totally a coincidence because I was going to meet my friend there.

Anyway, I really have to thank her for bringing me around Singapore on the following day. Highly recommended tour guide. haha.

So, our first destination was Little India because she suggested that there were more things to see due to Deepavali Festival. When we got out from the MRT station, I could never believe that I was in Singapore. The streets are full of Indian ethnics and its really very crowded!

You could easily differentiate a tourist from a local.

It was a gloomy evening and there wasn’t sufficient lights to make the photos more vivid.

This is one of the street in Little India.

Fruits and vegetables are everywhere along this street.

The whole area of Little India was decorated with lights, it should be even better if I were to stay on.

The main street of Little India is always busy. Lots of people and vehicles.

You definitely need to wait for the lights to cross this busy street.

After Little India, we went to Boat Quay for some food and then we took some photos (photos are located here) before calling it a day.

Thanks again Eunice for bringing me around

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Finally, I managed to spare some time off to drop by Singapore. The weather wasn’t really great, so the best I could do was to shoot night shots.

Here are some of the nightscape I took around the area of Clarke Quay and Boat Quay.

Clarke Quay is well known for its clubs and pubs and there are lots of restaurants too.

Esplanade is the durian shape Theatre located next to the bay. This was taken opposite the theatre.

This was taken from outside Esplanade. Definitely one of the good spot for night shots as well.

You will see this bridge when you are walking towards Boat Quay from Clarke Quay. There are some side seeing boats which you could take from one end to the other.

This is the view of Boat Quay from the bridge in the photo above. If you guys know any other nice spot for night shot please feel free to share with me.

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I was out with a few friends last weekend. The main purpose of this outing was for photoshooting, but somehow we ended up watching a movie. Well, overall it was still great. I managed to take a few photos around KL city centre.

It was really a short and quick one as most of us were very hungry after the movie. So food was the only thing we had in mind.

The evening blue sky of Kuala Lumpur will look like this most of the time.

This is Pavilion in case you guys couldn’t recognise it.

It is actually very rare to see people using the zebra crossing. Probably they were all tourists

Malaysia is well known for its humidity and warm weather. Yes, HOT and WET.

When it comes to nightscape I always love to capture any sources of lights for example signboards, street lights, moonlight, etc.

These are the Kuala Lumpur city taxis. You should be able to see them almost everywhere except maybe the airport.

Enjoy and feel free to drop some comments

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