Part of The View

There's something interesting about this estate that's kind of hard to put into words. 

I'm not sure if it's because there're four roads with four different names in this one (small) area, or if it is that there are blocks of four different architectural styles on these four different roads.

I've been to the Mattar side of this area before. 

I've also been (briefly) to the Balam Road side. 

Today, however, was the first time I walked along the bridge spanning the canal next to the hawker center into the blocks of the Merpati Road side. 

There were things that I'm glad I managed to see. 

Notably, however, was the view from the blocks. 

That, admittedly, surprised me. 

What makes these views so unique is that I don't think there are that many homes in housing estates with such views out from their living room windows nor their kitchen windows anymore. 

Many of our housing estates- mature or new- like the blocks on the opposite of the canal- are packed so much closer that you just look out to either your neighbors' windows in the block/blocks opposite, the electrical station, or the rubbish collection area, or the car park downstairs. 

Not so for these blocks here.

From the living room windows most of them got (at least) an angled view of the field in front, the canal, and the (newer) blocks on the other side. 

From the kitchen windows most of them also got (at least) an angled view of the houses in front of their estate, the two-storeyed shops on the other side of the canal, and the canal itself- stretching towards the back of the estate until it curved towards Tai Seng and Ubi. 

Shall we say that they aren't the newest blocks in the area? 

And perhaps they may be on- like some may say of the country's cityscape- borrowed time. 

But as of today, as of this afternoon, these blocks are still here. 

And as much as there had been people there, there are still people now.