I thought I had a lot of pictures from this one particular bus ride.
Turns out I don't, and that the few I have are in fact all from just one or two roads, which, fortunately, are very scenic, and so, even though I don't have a lot of pictures, I have a fair number of very pretty ones.
The bus ride this afternoon began from Serangoon Bus Interchange.
If I'm not wrong I think we were on Bus 105 heading towards Toa Payoh.
It's not often that I take pictures of the bus interchange, but I wanted to grab a shot of this one.
Especially since it isn't always that I pass through this part of the interchange feeling real, or me, and that there are days where I pass through wondering from what, and where did I just come from?
It's a very dystopian kind of feeling.
Is it me, is it not me?
Am I what I am now, or am I what I have been for the last four hours?
Who is the real me?
Who is looking back at who?
These are the questions hard to ask, hard to answer, and I don't know best how to describe the feeling, save that, more often than not, I don't recognize myself.
Of course, the other me is going into this bus interchange, not coming out of it, and truth be told, I keep wondering just for how long.
This afternoon the bus turned out from the interchange, made a right onto Serangoon Avenue 2, then a left onto Serangoon Avenue 3, going past a four-storeyed housing block that housed a pizza place called Gusta Sourdough Pizza Co.
Along Serangoon Avenue 3 the bus then went, passing by more housing blocks of flats that, if I'm not wrong, sit opposite Yangzheng Primary School and Zhonghua Secondary School.
What transfixed me very much about this road were the trees.
I had not known there were this many trees with such huge spreading branches and dark green leaves this side of Serangoon.
The sun, filtering through the branches, and the leaves, made the road so pensive, yet so beautiful.
It continues on, passing by the area (opposite) that's considered as Braddell Heights, then the distinctive gate of Nanyang Junior College before traveling past Lorong Chuan MRT of the Circle Line.
After this, the bus comes to the end of Serangoon Avenue 3, and makes a left onto Lorong Chuan.
Now, I'm not familiar with the whole road that is Lorong Chuan.
I don't know from where it begins, although Google tells me it begins from Serangoon Gardens and ends at Braddell Road somewhere near the CTE Expressway.
I also don't know which condo is which name.
But the sunset is beautiful.
But from Serangoon Avenue 3 the bus turns left, and right away, you come to an office building called New Tech Park, then further on, the Australian International School Singapore.
It's funny, but I never know where the main entrance of the school is.
I think it's here, on Lorong Chuan, because the other side is the CTE and you certainly cannot turn into the campus grounds direct from the expressway.
Beyond that lies the junction that connects you to either the CTE Expressway heading downtown, or into Toa Payoh housing estate, Braddell Road, then Thomson Road or Lornie Road further down.
My pictures this afternoon end somewhere here.
I was getting down at Toa Payoh Lorong 6, and I didn't want to get down with Chonkycam in my hand.