Coming back to Malaysia in 2010, after spending the better part of the previous 20 years out of the country, was disconcerting. Everything seemed different and new. Trips to visit places I knew as a boy would be filled with apprehension as I wondered if I would still be able to recognise it. Would it be as I remembered? Would it even be there?

I felt compelled to rediscover the land of my birth. This journey of discovery would take me across the length and breadth of Malaysia with my trusty camera by my side.

The starting point of course was my hometown of Ipoh.