Three months it has been since I took this bus ride from Changi Airport to Pasir Ris.
Tell you honestly, it was not a bus ride I wanted to take.
Neither was it a bus ride I wanted to take all alone.
But Hedgehog had flown overseas, there were things I needed to do, and whilst I had thought I would take the bus all the way to NEX- familiar ground and all- I soon discovered that the bus actually did go by Pasir Ris.
Straightaway that changed my plans, since it would be far nearer if I could get what I needed from White Sands Shopping Mall, then take another bus home.
So it was that the route began from the basement of what I think is Terminal 3 of Changi Airport where there are no pictures, because there isn't much to be seen except for a lot of concrete lit by harsh white fluorescent light.
Round the basements of the other two terminals the bus went, then out it was to Airport Boulevard where it passed by a place near the SATS Flight Kitchen.
After that, the bus went along what I think is the ECP, or it might well have been part of the Changi Airport area- I don't know.
See, the thing about Changi Airport, and its surrounding areas, is that it is so interconnected that you never know where it is that the Airport highway ends and the actual expressway begins.
Maybe there's a turnabout- I can't remember- and unfortunately I don't have many pictures to look at.
All I know is that this stretch seemed like to be a highway where the bus simply coasted smoothly along.
My mind wasn't focused on the scenery this part of the journey.
I kept wondering about Hedgehog, what he was doing on the plane, whether he was watching the videos as he always did during these short two-hour flights, if he had enough snacks in his carry on bag, if he were still hungry...
There aren't as many pictures of this part as I would have wished.
Fortunately, much of the route this section was highway, highway, highway.
It doesn't look like a lot but it is what our highways are, and, as some tell me, they make for a very scenic drive, actually, heading from the airport down to the city.
Being local I haven't really noticed, but perhaps there really is something charming about seeing the presence of beautifully manicured trees and shrubs along our roads.
Perhaps it is that burst of green.
Perhaps too it is the burst of red or pink from the bougainvillea.
Somewhere along the way I probably stoned off, because next thing I knew, the bus had turned off the highway and gone onto Loyang Way.
Honestly I'd really like to know if this is Loyang Way.
I am presuming it is, because noob that I am, I don't recognize the street and I have no idea which is what. There aren't many landmarks on Loyang Way itself- if there were I didn't quite recognize, or see them.
But it's not Pasir Ris Drive 1, that much I know.
The estate of Pasir Ris doesn't look like this- much less Drive 1, which I should know, what with all the years of cycling through there to get to Tampines and Bedok and home.
From Loyang Way after came Drive 1, then Pasir Ris Street 11, Pasir Ris Street 12, and then back to Pasir Ris Drive 1 before Pasir Ris Central where I got down at White Sands.
