It was, i think, several months ago that I took this route.
Where I was going, now all of a sudden I can't be really sure, but if I were going from Ubi to Toa Payoh, and if the views out the window were all these, very likely it was that I had been heading to the district of Toa Payoh Lorong 6 to visit an elderly person who resided there.
Going to the Toa Payoh area from where I am isn't complicated.
It just means a bit of a walk, as the bus stop for Bus 59 lies on the opposite side of the PIE expressway, and to get there means I have to walk the route of Jln Daud, cross the zebra crossing, cross a traffic light, walk under the PIE expressway, cross another traffic light, then go a distance until I get to the bus stop that sits outside a small plant nursery.
It's always a bit of a mad rush to get to the bus stop because I'm the sort of person who would rather run for the bus than wait 20 minutes for the next bus.
So hardly is it that I have Chonkycam with me whenever I go on this route.
But today was an exception.
Maybe I had been having the heart to take more pictures.
The route of 59 from this bus stop first involves a right turn at the traffic light from Eunos Link to the west-bound side of the PIE expressway. There's not much of a view at this point, save for a fair bit of green that ranges from green patches to shrubs to trees that are clustered together near the turns.
After this the bus passes by, on the right hand side, blocks of flats from the housing estate that I think belongs to the Ubi housing estate. Somewhere around here there is a overhead bridge with some of the prettiest bougainvillea flowers one will see.
It's interesting how there're also bougainvillea shrubs lining the middle break separating the east-bound lanes and the west-bound lanes.
They do make a nice visual break for the eyes.
A couple of factory buildings come up right next. From which industrial estate I don't really know, but Google Maps tells me they're from the Paya Ubi Industrial Park, and then some buildings that the bus passes include those of notable companies in Singapore, like the OSIM HQ, and the Starhub Green.
The housing estate of Paya Lebar Way and Circuit Road came up next.
Quite notable these blocks were with their bright, cheery colors of red and yellow, and this long block that I know is Blk 91 of Paya Lebar Way.
Another overhead bridge with bougainvillea shrubs (of different color) comes up right after this long-corridor block, and then the view becomes that of NEXUS International School.
Around here, apparently, too, is the St. Andrew's Nursing Home (Aljunied) and then the bus on the PIE crosses the Kallang River.
The industrial estate of Kallang comes up right after where one is first greeted by the buildings of Mapletree, followed by a building called The EGIS, and then there was Infineon Technologies.
I got pretty intrigued by the sight of them trees and the bougainvillea shrubs of the intersecting lanes from the PIE (above me) so made sure I got a couple of pictures.
After Infineon came the building of SP with its wavy exterior, and then, finally, Siemens, a towering building standing independently and confidently on its own.
You know, up until I started going more onto the PIE and onto MacPherson road did I realize that the Siemens Building was such a landmark.
The bus on the PIE passed by the roads of MacPherson, Upper Serangoon and Woodleigh Tunnel here, before passing by the distinctive structure of what I think is Chapel of the Resurrection.
From here, I went past a tributary of the Kallang River, then the Central Expressway, and then the housing blocks of Kim Keat Estate.
Here I kept Chonkycam back into my bag and prepared to get down.
Because once the bus crossed into Kim Keat Link, we were officially in Toa Payoh, and two bus stops later I'd be getting down.