Musamanila Spotlights Mistula
Musamanila is a collection of reasons to be proud of being Filipino. It is maintained by writer and tour guide, Knox Balbastro, who, like us, was raised in a different country but found true home in the Philippines. Mistula is honored to be a part of her list. Thank you, fellow patriot.
HERE, Knox interviews our drummer Lugosi and discovers another true Filipino who isn’t born in the Philippines.

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?
Manikako Sunday, MAAD Sunday
Sunday was full of dolls – not only of the stuffed kind, but also of the ball-jointed variety. Lugosi and I met old friends – and made new ones along the way.

WHOA.
Make that double WHOA.
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:
