Month: October 2021

An Auto Otaku eating chicken rice on the way to Munich (and German border controls in the new normal)

With a little over 2 hours to go before landing at Munich International Airport (Yes, yes, I’m uploading this after I landed but let’s not get bogged down by silly little details). There’s nothing very significant to report on my smooth and amazingly quiet VTL flight SQ332 to Munich. It’s actually the first time I’ve […]

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An Auto-Otaku heads to Germany

Yes ladies and gents, thanks to the very kind people over at BMW Asia, I’m Vaccinated Travel Lane-ing my way up to Deutschland to drive something very interesting (well, by the time you read this, I’m probably already along the way or already there.). I figured since it’s been quite some time since I last […]

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Project 2002: Step by step

I totally get it, it’s a process. In every project such as this, there are bound to be setbacks, delays and unforeseen issues cropping up ever so often. That said, I still can’t help but feel a sense of anxiety, despair and disappointment whenever a particularly major one rears its ugly head. Since I was […]

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Project Mark II: Let’s go!

Yes ladies and gents, my (really dirty) Toyota GX110 Mark II is somewhat going to be a project car. I say somewhat because this “build” other than the usual wear and tear maintenance bits is going to be heavily restricted by an ideally “modest” budget. Don’t expect it to be anywhere near what the BMW […]

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