From somewhere near Certis Cisco, I think, is where I whipped out the camera. That's the place where the left side of the bus looks into the light industries that make up part of the Geylang East Central area leading towards Aljunied.
Paya Lebar is an interesting road. You don't really know where it starts, and you don't really know where it ends. It's as if it starts from Tanjong Katong Road, and yet it does not, because it connects to Guillemard Road, and from Guillemard Road, it makes this huge gigantic round downtown, and from there, the road seems to go on and on and on. So where it connects to, you don't really know.
It's the same on the other side.
Supposedly the road starts from Boundary Road, which is technically true, but check Google Maps and you'll find that Boundary Road forks out into two separate directions, one towards Yio Chu Kang and Seletar, the other towards Lorong Chuan.
So Paya Lebar Road is like somewhere in between the Central and the East, or somewhere between the Northeast and the South, which makes it an important connecting road, but you don't know precisely from where it connects to, and from where it truly ends.
But it's not really where the road starts from that matters, is it?
It's what you see along the way, and here, on Upper Paya Lebar Road, you're surrounded by industrial estates left and right, all the way from Aljunied down to Tai Seng- where LuxAsia and Breadtalk Group and Sakae Sushi and Charles & Keith are- and then to MacPherson, and then more factory buildings that make up that area, then the back a few schools, then Paya Lebar Chinese Methodist Church, more residential estates, a well known turtle soup place, and then finally the junction that intersects Upper Serangoon Road and Boundary Road.
Paya Lebar is an interesting road. You don't really know where it starts, and you don't really know where it ends. It's as if it starts from Tanjong Katong Road, and yet it does not, because it connects to Guillemard Road, and from Guillemard Road, it makes this huge gigantic round downtown, and from there, the road seems to go on and on and on. So where it connects to, you don't really know.
It's the same on the other side.
Supposedly the road starts from Boundary Road, which is technically true, but check Google Maps and you'll find that Boundary Road forks out into two separate directions, one towards Yio Chu Kang and Seletar, the other towards Lorong Chuan.
So Paya Lebar Road is like somewhere in between the Central and the East, or somewhere between the Northeast and the South, which makes it an important connecting road, but you don't know precisely from where it connects to, and from where it truly ends.
But it's not really where the road starts from that matters, is it?
It's what you see along the way, and here, on Upper Paya Lebar Road, you're surrounded by industrial estates left and right, all the way from Aljunied down to Tai Seng- where LuxAsia and Breadtalk Group and Sakae Sushi and Charles & Keith are- and then to MacPherson, and then more factory buildings that make up that area, then the back a few schools, then Paya Lebar Chinese Methodist Church, more residential estates, a well known turtle soup place, and then finally the junction that intersects Upper Serangoon Road and Boundary Road.
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| somewhere near Geylang East Central |
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| opposite Certis Cisco and AQueen Hotel |
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| an orangey industrial-office building |
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| blue shutter of a provision/sundry shop |
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| towards bartley, I think...? |