Goodbye 2008

This is my 368th post since my first blog post, and my 166th for 2008.



Some Silly Stats:

• 22,681 visits by 18,933 unique visitors
• 40% traffic referred by websites, of which tsulin.com & melissalai.com contributed with 12% (thanks ladies!)
• 70% search traffic came from Google
• Top 3 keyword searches: streamyx dns, how to hack friendster, hacking friendster
• 51% readers used Firefox, higher than the industry average of 30%
• 44% readers from Malaysia
• Most viewed articles: How I hacked Friendster with CoComment, Streamyx DNS sucks - switch to OpenDNS, How to hack WAP portals (it's confirmed, I'm a hacker wannabe!)
• Most comments: 12 comments on Long meetings. Short fuse.
• Best day: May 22, 2008 (107 visitors, 123 visits, 241 page views) - Ranga was the star on this one - Let me see your booty shake!

Summing up 2008:

• January 2008: getting featured on Jeff Ooi's blog for TwoSen.com & your two sens worth
• February 2008: Finally standing up for consumer rights (Tune Money, Standard Chartered)
• March 2008: discovered Yut Kee, and voted for change in Malaysia
• April 08: more time with the family, settled in at work, and structured my LifeLogger bad debt "ghosts"
• May 08: dropped my glasses into a drain, which was the start of a fashion revolution
• June 2008: got to know more people, and traveled to Pangkor for the first time (how "ulu" is that!)
• July 2008: Mel & I explored Bangkok (and loved it!)
• August 2008: turbulent times for Mel (and her episodes with the boss from hell!) - lots of traveling to Singapore
• September 2008: Mel's back in KL, and I stopped blogging for a month - obviously glad that she was back lah!
• October 2008: MNP goes live after many months of slogging - DiGi the only one winning now, great milestone
• November 2008: witnessing the Obama milestone, and hitting the big three-oh
• December 2008: Scooter, Mel launches TheNewColour, and running the Singapore Marathon with my buddies

It's been a good year, and I thank you for making it real.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!