A while back I wrote about having dinner at the Kim San Leng Food Court (or coffee shop).
What I didn't write about, however, was the walk I took from home to get there.
It isn't often that I get the opportunity to appreciate the sights of Kembangan the same way I did this particular evening.
But the air was cool and the light of dusk exceptionally good, so we slowed down, and looked about us a wee bit more.
The Kim San Leng coffee shop sits at the junction of Telok Kurau and Changi Road, so instead of taking Lorong Melayu and Lorong Marzuki (which is nearer to where we are) we decided we'd walk the road nearest to the petrol station and the traffic light, and so headed towards Lorong Marican instead.
Coming out from where we were, we first took a left.
Were we to walk all the way down Jalan Daud- as we normally do- we would have come to the end where the road meets the highway.
But this evening we weren't heading that direction.
Instead halfway on Jalan Daud, after walking past by the junction of Lorong Marzuki, we headed down a bit more until we got to Lorong Marican afterward.
There would be no more turns on this road- a nice, neat straight one it was down Lorong Marican towards Sims Avenue East, but first, the small cute little junction of Jalan Ishak and Lorong Marican, which, by the way, every car has to stop, and which has one of the most iconic-looking houses this side of Lengkong Tiga and Kembangan.
It is not a huge house by any standards- just a single storey building- but I'm charmed by its semi-circular shape, simple plain wire fence between the pillars, and low shuttered windows that look out onto the road.
There're not many houses I've seen that have such a design.
The last time I saw one was probably on Simon Road.
Passing this junction, it was a continuous walk down.
There wasn't much else to be seen- I'm not the sort to take pictures of people's houses for no good reason- but there was this (vacant-looking) house that I thought had an air of silent poignancy about it, and beyond it, the distinctive green minaret of Masjid Al Abdul Razak, on Jalan Ismail across the Lorong Marican road.
A good five minutes later, past many more houses each with their own garden and own little plot of flourishing trees, we came to Sims Avenue East.
No traffic, so quickly across the road we dashed, entering into the other side of Lorong Marican, which, as I found out when we first moved here, does not actually end at usually-busy Sims Avenue East, but instead continues all the way down to Changi Road.
Makes me wonder what Sims Avenue East as an old road once used to be.
After crossing, down the Changi end of Lorong Marican we went where I took a (discreet) picture of three symmetrical windows on the ground floor of a house- they reminded me of a set of building blocks I used to have when I was young.
And then we were at the traffic light, waiting to cross the road, petrol station on one side, a row of shops on the other.
But, I have no picture of the Kim San Leng coffee shop.
I don't know why.