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As we were staying in Kundasang we had some time to look around, our first stop was the famous Kundasang War Memorial, which to quote: Established in 1962, this was one of the first memorials to commemorate the brave Australian and British Prisoners of War who died in Sandakan and during the infamous death marches [...]

So our guide let us know of a semi-wild Orangutan named Jackie that lived somewhere in Kinabalu park. Most of the time she stayed in the jungle, but she did enjoy human contact and came out now and then to see who was around. Our guide was friendly with the people who stayed around the [...]

In the middle of last year I was looking for a new compact camera as my beloved Fuji F31fd had gone missing in action and I really needed something portable to carry around. At the time the two contenders were the Canon PowerShot G10 vs Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX3 (LX-3) which I compared in the linked [...]

After our adventures at the Monsopiad Cultural Village we headed back to KK city to stay overnight at Hotel Shangri La. We had a free and easy night so we asked the guide and some others where we could get some good seafood, we should have Googled it first of course but we didn't have [...]

Finally there is a decent quality local basketball scene with the ASEAN Basketball League (ABL), it currently contains 6 teams from the ASEAN region with perhaps more being added next year. The current teams are: Philippine Patriots Satria Muda BritAma (Indonesia) Singapore Slingers KL Dragons Brunei Barracudas Thailand Tigers I used to play basketball quite [...]

What a busy start to the new year, starting from January first I had to wake up at 8am 3 days straight..once for a wedding on Friday the 1st, for this event on Saturday 2nd and finally for a video shoot on Sunday 3rd. Then each day after that was a long and event packed [...]

If you've been reading my blog for a while you may remember I went to Sekinchan a couple of years back in June - A Trip to Sekinchan Paddy Fields with Shutter Asia – June 2nd. I went again this past weekend, we planned to go towards the end of the year this time to [...]

After the Sandakan Town Tour we headed to the airport and flew over to KK. Shortly after landing we headed on over to the Monsopiad Cultural Village, which was an interesting experience to say the least. They say you haven't seen Sabah if you haven't been to the Monsopiad village! We arrived just in time [...]

Once again The Star does what it seems to do consistently, publish a picture without any credit at all. Unlike the Malay Mail who published a blog article of mine without permission then printed an apology. This issue with The Star has also been discussed in depth on Shutter Asia: Malaysian Newspapers and Photo Credits [...]

So after our trip to the picturesque Puu Jih Shih Temple in Sandakan we checked out the rest of the town. We visited a church which is part of the heritage trail called St. Michael's and All Angels Church. A quaint little church finished in the early 1900s, it reminds of those little village churches [...]