Wait, what?

So here’s the story. Last Sunday, I was in the Orchard area playing my part for the community at large by volunteering as the official photographer for some charity street busking project—we have a lot of these. After seven gruelling hours spent repeatedly depressing the shutter button, I was ready to move on to the next stage of my spiritual evolution, i.e. death. Then, as I was close to drawing my final breath, I noticed a familiar face…in 2D. There was a Chevrolet car show going on at Civics Square (aka the empty area outside Ngee Ann City which, up to that point in time, was completely outside my sphere of awareness. (I’m not a car person, okay?) The only thing I know about Chevrolet is that Bumblebee is one. Good old Bumblebee.

I am digressing, as usual. The point is that I saw the car pictured above on display. Apparently it won the “Best Dress up Car Contest”. Oh wow. I took a few shots. Some guy walked passed with his girlfriend and, after the initial momentary look of shock was replaced by one of recognition and child-like joy, took out his phone to take a few pictures too. Meanwhile, the announcer kept harping on Chevrolet’s (paid) appearance in Transformers.

Times like these bring tears to my eyes. The owner of this car has achieved one of my goals in life, except that I hate Shana and the line art trace he used for the decal is pretty fugly. Oh well, you can’t have everything in life. At least now I know who to look for when if I get my own car one day.

P.S. Don’t know what “itasha” means? Read this. It’s a (relatively) common phenomenon in Japan, but this is the first one I’ve seen in Singapore.

[アニメ]æ‚雨沢恵一「キノの旅」劇場版アニメ制作決定！
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Moonspeak to English (ok I’m running out of funny things to say here):

New “Kino no Tabi” (by Keiichi Shigusawa) movie confirmed!
This is the third anime adaptation and the second movie adaptation. The last movie “Kino no Tabi ~nanika suru tame ni~” was only shown in a single cinema, we wonder how it’ll be this time. Will it be in theatres the same time as the “Shakugan no Shana” movie?

Kino is a reverse trap! :3

UPDATE: The official site will be updated with more details in October. There’s currently a placeholder page.