10 seasons. 5 years. And somehow, I still don't really know what I'm doing.

I'm about to start my 10th season in esports and my 5th year working in MLBB — and for the first time, I actually stopped to think about how strange that is.

I never planned to become an esports commentator. My career has taken me through teaching, modeling, gaming, streaming, content creation, voice work, esports, and now podcasting. For most of my life, I thought I was just taking random detours.

Maybe I was actually building something the whole time.

In this solo episode of AFAAM, I reflect on five years of building an unconventional career — the opportunities, the uncertainty, the pressure, the lessons, and the parts people don't see.

I talk about what esports has taught me, how my definition of success has changed, why even doing well can still feel uncertain, and what I want the next five years of my life to look like.

Because maybe you don't need to have your life figured out.

Maybe you just need to keep building.

AFAAM #23 — Building, Not Escaping.

Mika Fabella has an Emmy for Esports. She hosts VCT Pacific, and the biggest Valorant tournaments in the world. She produces for Core-A Studios in Seoul. She was a professional dancer with Ballet Philippines. She made a film at Cinemalaya.

She also didn't go to high school because her family couldn't afford it.

This episode is about what it looks like to build a life without a roadmap — and what happens when the career you built to escape becomes the reason you stay.

AFAAM is a podcast about building a life in Manila, hosted by a Filipino American figuring it out one episode at a time.

email: [email protected]

I went to Paris expecting to witness another championship.

Instead, I witnessed the beginning of a new era for Mobile Legends.

This isn't an MSC recap. It's a story about consistency, belief, and why the people who quietly keep building are often the ones who eventually change everything.

From Team Spirit's historic championship run to Myanmar's incredible journey to the Grand Finals, this episode explores the stories behind the headlines—and the lessons they offer all of us.

Sometimes success isn't about being the favorite.

Sometimes it's about staying long enough for the world to finally notice.

Philippine MLBB has dominated the international stage for years—but after Team Liquid PH's shocking exit, many fans are asking the same question:

What happened?

In this solo episode, I share my thoughts after reading hundreds of comments from the community and explain why this loss, as painful as it was, could ultimately be one of the best things to happen for Philippine MLBB and esports as a whole.

We talk about dominance, adaptation, competition, and why the greatest champions are defined not by never losing—but by how they respond when they do.

Because this episode isn't really about Mobile Legends.

It's about life.

For over a decade, Manjean Faldas has been one of the defining voices of Philippine esports—but this episode isn't about the catchphrase that made him famous.

It's about the four years he spent rejecting the career that changed his life, the reality of becoming a breadwinner at a young age, earning just enough to help his family survive, and why he believes a man's greatest achievement isn't fame—it's being able to provide.

We also talk about leaving behind the role that made him an icon, becoming a beginner again with Honor of Kings, and discovering that uncertainty isn't something to fear—it's part of building a meaningful life.

A candid conversation between two friends who've shared the broadcast desk, but have never had this conversation until now.

Recorded live from Paris during Esports World Cup week — MWI and MSC.

A quick solo dispatch on the gap between what the broadcast shows and what it actually feels like to be there, fifteen years into this. Unfiltered, recorded the same day.

A few more of these — plus some travel conversations under a new bonus series, AFAAM: On the Road — are coming out of this trip before Season 1 resumes with #19.

AFAAM is a podcast about building a life in Manila, hosted by a Filipino American figuring it out one episode at a time.

Wolf is a caster. A podcaster. Co-founder of Manila Podcast Studio. One of the most recognizable voices in Philippine esports.

The name came from lupus.

In this episode of AFAAM, Naisou sits down with his closest collaborator and co-founder for the conversation they've never quite had on mic — about building a career under a chronic illness, about the shift from casting to podcasting, about what it means to build something real and still not fully let yourself feel it.

Recorded on a beach. Powered by Cecox. No studio walls.

AFAAM is a podcast about building a life in Manila, hosted by a Filipino American figuring it out one episode at a time.

Not everyone who's around is actually there.

A short solo episode recorded from home — about the people who show up before there's anything to show for. Before the studio, before the show, before any of it made sense.

This one's about the front row seats that get earned without anyone noticing.

AFAAM is a podcast about building a life in Manila, hosted by a Filipino American figuring it out one episode at a time.

DJY has 230,000 YouTube subscribers and one of the most recognizable personalities in MLBB content creation. But this episode isn't about the numbers.

It's about the streams where nobody showed up. The watchparty where he almost quit. The pride he gave up being made fun of online every day. And what kept him going when everything was telling him to stop.

He's in Manila for a few months. He's about to go home. This is the conversation he had before he left.

AFAAM is a podcast about building a life, hosted by a Filipino American figuring it out one episode at a time.

email: [email protected]

Most people build because they have to. The rent, the career, the dream with no backup plan.

This episode is about building when you don't have to — and why that version of building is actually the hardest one to explain and the hardest one to sustain.

After fifteen years in Philippine esports, there was no gap to fill and no crisis to solve. AFAAM and Manila Podcast Studio happened anyway. This is the honest story of why.

AFAAM is a podcast about building a life in Manila, hosted by a Filipino American figuring it out one episode at a time.

Email: [email protected]