Caffeine Clandestine

The Coffee Connoisseur
Bugis Junction, Singapore
One hour before closing time.

Thank you for the invitation, Lord Lugosi. I must say it’s rather…unexpected. I hope nothing is amiss?
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Continue Reading 28 comments December 30th, 2009

Manikako’s MAAD Saturday

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The day started with a locked bathroom. The owner of the house, Itsy, left for the gym, and left the luckless Manikako girls unable to take a shower. No one knew how the bathroom got locked – and no one knew how to open it. Trisha blamed the hungry ghosts; it is the Hungry Ghost month and the usually meticulously-swept Singapore is littered with offerings of food to dead ancestors. But the hungry ghosts cannot be bribed to open the bathroom and Manikako had to be at the red dot design museum at 10AM, so Gabie had to do this:

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Continue Reading 32 comments September 12th, 2009

Oh, Joy!

Our friends from Singapore, Steph and Joy, came to visit the Philippines a few weeks ago. Lugosi and Manx were more than happy to welcome them.
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Continue Reading 30 comments October 5th, 2007

The Month of Mae

Should we fly to Singapore today, Magpie? I want to greet Mae a happy birthday and thank her personally for parting the Red Sea for me.

By all means, Sir. I heard she performed miracles for that outfit.
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Continue Reading 9 comments May 16th, 2007

Crossroads

Transcribed from the confidential letter of the Black Rose to Uno of Mistula, dated April 10, 2006:

Dear Lord Uno,

It is with profound hesitation that I present to you these files, taken by one of our disciples on the 23th of August, 2005 in Singapore City. With Lord Lugosi in this photo are his guide, Lin Si Ye, Shan’s Shiina and Noel, Evildolly’s Joy and Harmony, Fox’s Sydney and Rue, Gure’s Vince, Seph and Mantau, Haru’s Lucien and Mainey’s Kazumi. Lin Si Ye’s custodians, Djinn and Mae, have diligently documented the event on this site.

Top row, standing, from left: Sydney, Bella Lugosi, Joy, Shiina and Vince. Seated, from left: Rue, Seph, Si Ye, Lucien, Mantau, Kazumi, Harmony and Noel.
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Continue Reading 21 comments April 11th, 2006