These pictures were taken out the bus window during a bus ride a couple of months ago.
But because it's been a while and I don't quite remember to where I was going or when it was I went, I'll just put these here and perhaps one day the memory will pop up and I'll be able to tell.
Geylang is a place filled with a mix of charm and mystery.
It's a place that bombards you with her colorful signboards during the day, glaringly bright synthwave neon lights at night, yet make you wonder what lies within her hidden spaces and little back alleys.
Yes, she's known for her distinctive night life.
But anyone who's ever explored the area will know that she possesses her own charms in broad daylight too.
The bus I was on today had a route that trundled down past Geylang Methodist Church and Aljunied MRT.
I know- because I recognize the junction at which the shophouses there house a medical hall and other shops- which the bus will then pass by before making a right into the (official) district itself.
One of the landmarks that marks the junction between Geylang Road and Aljunied Road is this one.
I think it's a motor vehicle agency, although, judging by the looks of it, I'm not sure if the motor vehicle agency is still there.
Wouldn't be surprised if the cars have moved and a seafood place has taken over.
Along Geylang Road the bus then goes down.
I generally pay very little attention to the lengthy stretch of shophouses here, because for some reason they tend to be either a minimart, a spa, a hair salon, a handphone shop, a coffee shop, or a restaurant.
Once in a while, however, there're some interesting ones.
Like this one here which looks like (just) another coffee shop, but in fact looks out onto the carefully divided property that hosts a seafood restaurant along the main road, a charity organization in the center, and the Singapore Badminton Hall at the back.
You might not be able to see the structures of the charity organization- there're a couple of trees and shrubs around- but you won't miss out seeing the seafood restaurant.
They've got a gigantic model of a (cooked) crab plonked on the walls of the entrance right in front.
The shop houses become slightly more varied after here.
Besides the chuan chuan xiang grilled skewer restaurants, the hotpot restaurants, the Sichuan and northeast cuisine restaurants, there're the dessert shops, an adult shop or two, and then there's also the dim sum.
There're probably a couple of dim sum places here and there along the stretch, but Mongkok Dim Sum on Geylang Road and 126 Dim Sum on Sims Way the other side are probably the most well known.
It's not just dim sum that people come here for.
There's the porridge, the salted soy bean curd and huge pieces of youtiao at a coffee shop further up.
And I think people come here for zichar, char kuay teow, Klang bak kut teh and claypot frog leg porridge too.
It would be wonderful if I knew which of all the zichars served up the best, just exactly where the char kuay teow stall on this entire stretch was, or if one frog leg porridge shop was different from the other.
But I've yet to know.
One day maybe I'll extend the pictures beyond this road that's connected to the Kallang- Paya Lebar Expressway, and carry on looking about until I get to Geylang Lorong 1 where there's the Indian-Muslim eatery, and where marks the start of Geylang Road.