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It is blustery and the occupant inside the kampong hut with attap roof is trying to keep warm over a fire, or cooking something. The coconut tree near the centre frames the entire triangular wedge, with the kampong hut in the centre and another storage hut in the foreground on the right. Here, the tree trunk on the left tilting and veering out of the picture acts as a counter balance point to the composition.

Limited to the lack of good pigments to select from during the 1940s, Yong Mun Sen used the best British watercolor pigments that was available to him then. Even so, the colours were formulated with more chalk powder fillers in them, leaving a poster color like chalky effect when dry, evident in the blues and greens in this painting.