The dog is dressed up for the occasion of Chinese New Year.

Drawers in Chinese shop of traditional natural medicine.

In traditional Chinese medicine shop. The shop keeper weighs natural ingredients according to doctor's prescription. The ingredients consists of dried herbal and animal parts like fish bladder, shark fin or swiftlet's nest or some bark, spices and leaves.

South East Asian Swiftlet nest is made of spittle of the bird and is wildly used as delicacy in Chinese cooking and medicine. The swiftlets live in caves and gradually build their nests of their saliva. When this process is finished and the bird is ready to lay its eggs, nest collectors arrive and snatch their nests.

Kutching.

Kutching.

A post box.

A beach near Kota Kinabalu. If a beach is not cleaned regularly (read. everyday) after a few days or a storm turns to similar state.