Moving Window with a View: Tanjong Pagar/ China Town

For some reason, I find that my daily commute have been the highlight of my day.

Tonight I'm riding a bus again, but this time taking a different route and stopping at some places.

The contrasting image of a high-end facade of towering builings and their sombre backalleys just behind each other really interests me. They're like different entities coexsisting with each other but the fact is they're not. They are the same, but still diffent. I feel like Batman walking in between the streets of Gotham.

Walking really makes me hungry, even if I just ate 2 hours before.

One of my favorite hobby is to stare at all cars passing by until all of them blended their colors and become one streak of different colors like a rainbow and the road will become two-toned of black and white and the street lamps become yellow dots and the whole scene looked like a long exposed shot painting. I know It's weird after realizing I've been at it in a few minutes, standing motionless but hey, each to each own yeah?

Needless to say, I'm a big fan of sssslllloooow shutter speed, and I like fast moving objects too much I make slow moving objects looks fast. Am I making sense?

Daily Commute - Notes on Distance Traveled

From office at Beach road to my Place at Queenstown

Approx 30mins bus ride

"Nothing is interesting if you are not interested" - someone's facebook status

Never knew my daily commute is interesting. I ride the same bus, pass the same roads, sometimes I take the train but I never look around me. The tower behind my bus stop is Park View Building, The Dark Knight once stood atop of it for a make-believe Gotham Building in "Batman Begins"

It's 6.45 and the bus is still empty, guess everyone is still slaving inside their offices. I sat on window seat further back. I like this seat, there's just a small chance someone will seat beside me. Not much passengers to do "people-watching" so I turn my gaze to the window instead.

Bugis is as lively as ever. Steamboat houses are setting up their al-fresco tables. I like the Modern-chic look of the National Library. Raffles Hotel is both old and new. How did they come to pronounce "Chijmes" as Chimes? Who thought of the name in the first place? Generally Bras Basah area is plain old weird.

Turning right to SMU, or rather turning Hard right, then hard left, then hard right. Bus drivers here don't know how to use clutch or brakes for that matter.

I'm still weirded out that its 7PM and the sun is just setting. I'm adjusting my dinner to 9pm.

I'm travelling just on the parallel street of Orchard Road and I can see the stark difference. Just what a park in between the two roads can do? Whereas Orchard is lively and bright, here it's sombre and grey. But still, there goes your occasional Ferrari.

Trees, bushes, condos on top of the hills. More trees and bushes, parks and all around greeniness (is there such a word?). This is a jungle inside a city or a city inside a jungle. Whatever.

After a dozen of hard turns and sudden brakes, I feel like I just passed the nooks and crannies of this city. Its getting dark (at last) and I'm home (at last)