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Come May/June every year, tis the season of chess camps, tournaments, inter-club meets, inter-school meets, etc. The stage is set for chess battle! "Grand Master in training" Start them young..... Chess is still popular in Malaysia!

Unveiling the secrets of Taman Warisan Pertanian in Putrajaya - an agricultural education park with a variety of fruits, herbs, spices and agricultural crops.   Posting by Xian Wei: Why were these branches upside-down? Guess the name of this tree.   Our guide was cutting the bark of a cinnamon tree....... It has a strong smell! Hmmm..... I wondered which hand could reach the fruit first. Our guide showed us a pineapple plant. If you cut the crown of the pineapple, then you can plant it again. We went to a small paddy field. We saw duckweeds which were the small green floating plants. These plants could take up a lot of oxygen,  they must be controlled. After that, we learnt to plant at the Little Farmers' Program.  Our guide taught us to plant using recycled bottles. Busy at work......... The finished work........ Rubber-tapping demonstration Looking at the latex dripping into the bowl.... The leaves of rub...

Posting by Xian Wei: After a tiring trip to Penang/Ipoh, my family and I went fishing with our cousins at the Fish Valley Semenyih. As it was our first time fishing, we were actually feeding the fish!! The charge was RM10 per fishing rod for unlimited hours of fishing at the small pond - less than 3kg fish pond (Big pond will cost RM20). If you want to take back the fish you have caught, you will need to pay!! After that, we asked a man to teach us how to fish and put the bait to the hook. The hook accidentally poked my finger. It was very painful. But it was not deep nor bleeding. What luck! The bait was actually fish pellets but we had to put in some water to soften it. The lump looked like poop! He showed us an example how to throw the fishing line and when he threw it you must NOT stand behind him. Waiting for the fish.....We tried and tried, but we ended up feeding the fish. When we had to go home, we finally got it! But we did not get a single fish .....:( ...

Sekeping Kong Heng  is exactly what it claimed - it is a slice of history within a real old town setting which is alive, working and real. If you have heard of Ng Sek San, you will agree that he's one of a kind, practically a legend in the landscape design field. Sekeping Kong Heng is his latest unveiled guest house, or more accurately, an adaptive reuse of an abandoned building, side-by-side with the famous century-old coffee shops in the heart of Ipoh Old Town. Top: Across the street is Concubine Lane, a buzzing hangout place of rich tin mine tycoons representing the golden age of Ipoh in the early 1900s. Bottom: Sekeping Kong Heng behind the popular "Kong Heng" coffee shop (yellowish building). Unassuming entrance to guest house besides the coffee shop. Even with GPS, it is very difficult to locate the guest house. Maybe when Seksan completes his touch in the surrounding abandoned buildings, we will see the masterpiece. Lobby  Reception ...

"Ching Han Guan" (in Cantonese "Zhong Hon Yuen") is famous in Ipoh as a traditional biscuit shop. This is one of the shops that we faithfully go back to every time we are in Ipoh. Reason? The varieties of biscuits, with a mix of the old and new, taste fresher and better even though we're not big fans of traditional biscuits. The shop has a rich legacy behind the name, you will likely not able to find another traditional biscuit shop still doing the way they were more than 60 years ago. The owner shared with us that the shop in Hugh Low Street had been established in 1949, when he was only 2 years old. The business was started by his father, a Teochew, and until today it's one of few shops still making authentic Teochew specialty biscuits. He took over the business when he was only 13 years old after the passing on of his father - starting off as a bicycle peddlar selling the biscuits to neighbouring shops. He has 4 children and currently only one ...

Posting by Xian Jin: My family and I went to  many interesting places  during the holidays. One of them was the historical tin dredge in Malaysia. This tin dredge is in Tanjung Tualang, about 9 km away from the Kinta Nature Park in Batu Gajah. It is called TT 5. It is no longer in use since 1982, after the collapse of the tin price.  TT 5 was the last remaining of 6 tin dredges belonging to the Southern Malayan Tin Dredging Ltd. TT 5 looked like a giant metal ship. TT 5 was a 5-storey high tin dredge and has a width of 35m, length of 75m. It weighed about 4,500 tonnes. TT 5 needed 30 workers per shift, 3 shifts per day for its operation. We were very fortunate to have Mr Steven Ng to explain to us the history of tin mining in the Kinta Valley. Mr Ng's father worked in the tin mining industry, just like my grandfather. He's responsible for managing the tin dredge now.  According to Mr Ng, there were five methods of tin mining - tin dredge method was ...