There are more pictures of this bus ride that I took from Pasir Ris Interchange back to the bus stop outside Jalan Awang compared to the earlier ride from Changi Airport to Pasir Ris.
It's not because there was better scenery, but because I knew exactly where I was going to get down, and so I could take as many pictures as I wanted without having to worry that I'd miss my stop.
Bus 21 begins from Pasir Ris Bus Interchange.
What the interchange looks like, I'm afraid, offhand, I can't remember.
It might well have been the same one as I remembered.
It might well have been sheltered.
I wish I could remember how it looked like- I wish I had taken a picture- chances are I won't be returning to Pasir Ris anytime soon.
As it was, the bus turned out from the bus interchange and onto Pasir Ris Drive 3. What's significant about this particular road isn't just the road itself, but the fact that it crossed the Sungei Tampines, and was the nearest road to Pasir Ris Park and the Pasir Ris coast.
The bus went past the place we call Downtown East before turning into Drive 6 and then Drive 1.
It was to Street 12 after that, then Street 11, and finally back to Drive 1.
If it sounds confusing, well, actually, to a noob like me unfamiliar with Pasir Ris, yes, it is.
What it likely was, if I'm not wrong, was that from Drive 3, it turned right into Drive 6, went down it, turned left into Drive 1, then once past the Pasir Ris East Community Club, turned right into Street 12, then left onto Street 11, back right onto Drive 1, and then Loyang Avenue.
I'm not sure if it were turning left or right or how it were going.
Chonkycam was busy.
There were a lot of pictures to be taken along this entire stretch.
Sure, they might all have been nothing other than flats, and more flats, but that's the beauty of Pasir Ris as a residential estate. You get the charm of different colored flats, you get the charm of neatly planted shrubs, and you get the sight of seemingly random, yet planned trees.
More blocks follow after that.
I don't know which block is at where, but they're neat, they're beautifully painted and the colors are somewhat refreshing to the eye.
I like the colors of blue and white.
They remind me of Greece, or Israel, or somewhere in the Mediterranean.
Add to that the (temporary) bus stop with its orange and white roof, and it becomes instinctively Singaporean.
After this I don't really know which part of Pasir Ris it were, but the blocks were now red and white, then there was a school- of which name I do not know- and then a sign telling you that the TPE and the Tampines Town Center was near.
I think it was on Loyang Avenue that the bus came up to next.
Although I can't be really sure.
There aren't any landmarks on Loyang Avenue that I can really recognize.
Except maybe for this row of terrace houses that I know Bus 53 passes by too.
I am not familiar with how this road works, but what I'm pretty sure is that it leads straight into Tampines.
Because that's the estate that I ended up after a traffic junction.
Again, I don't know which block is where but Bus 21 went from Loyang Avenue to Tampines Avenue 7, then Ave 4, Ave 5, then Tampines Avenue 1.
There're a lot of blocks to be seen at Avenue 7, by the way, starting off with a couple of grey painted ones whose nearby bus stops had roofs that looked like they had little square plots of plants. Then there were blocks in red and white, followed by those in yellow and white.
After that came others, one block in full blue, one block in full yellow. I wonder if them colors have any significance in this area. A school I'd passed by further back had had such colors too.
Further on after at Avenue 7 came a few blocks painted in blue and white, same as I'd seen at Pasir Ris estate earlier.
After Avenue 7 came Avenue 4, which was literally Tampines Central, with the Tampines MRT, and the Century Square shopping center.
It's probably somewhere around here, although, I must admit, I don't know which particular Avenue this is on, and if it is right by Tampines MRT, or Tampines West MRT- which is different.
Right after Tampines Avenue 1- the Tampines West MRT- came Bedok Reservoir Road, and this, I recognized a little.
No doubt, I haven't come on here very much, but I have cycled here before, I recognize the area of space, and I roughly can guess where this leads to.
That being said, Bedok Reservoir Road is a fairly long road, and so I don't know where is where, but after two bus stops by public housing, the bus passed by a couple of condos that were right opposite the reservoir.
After that it were the flats of Bedok Reservoir Road, all of which I more or less recognized. It's not that I know which block belongs to which block but I do know- by the presence of the trees- roughly which block is around which area. There were flats close to what I call the Sheng Siong Supermarket, or rather, more appropriately, the Bedok Reservoir Village.
Then there were those close to the Industrial Park.
The bus passed by the industrial estate itself right after before coming on to a place where in the near future there would be SingHealth's Eastern General Hospital and Community Hospital.
I didn't take many pictures after this place.
The bus was coming up towards the zone known as the Bedok Reservoir Food Centre whose blocks, in fact, can be seen from the balcony of Steppyhouse, and I knew I was reaching Jalan Eunos, and the bus stop of Jalan Awang where I would alight, and walk back home.