The good, the bad and the ugly. Although it’s the title of a classic Western, that’s exactly how I felt reviewing these new releases in the third edition of Round-up-Review.
BoA – “The Shadow”
Korea’s ‘Queen of Pop’ – BoA -has been around the music scene for over a decade. And she’s only 25. Given BoA was only 13 when she debuted, and despite the fact there are K-pop idols older than her, Kwon Boa is still considered a ‘senior’ artist by her peers. Continue reading “K-pop Round-up-Review: BoA, KARA and G-Dragon” »
Yesterday‘s typhoon brought with it quite a bit of rain, meaning I couldn’t go to Ocean Park today. So I stayed indoors, did some more research and only stepped out post lunch to begin ‘day 3’ in Hong Kong.
I decided to check out the tallest building on Hong Kong island
Walk straight and you enter IFC mallThe 88-storey International Financial Centre
Yay! MithunOnThe.Net, a website started by the guy writing this, has crossed a milestone. It took nearly two-and-half years, but my blog has so far received more than 500,000 pageviews! Which means it’s time for “Happy, Happy, Joy, Joy”!
First of all, I want to thank everyone who visits my website on a regular basis. To the newbie visitors, hope you like what you see and decide to bookmark it or ‘Like’ it on Facebook. Special thanks to the folks who leave me comments and tell me they love my work. Yes, despite the fact this blog being a pass time, my travelogues are a lot of ‘work’ to put together. But working on them and getting feedback (mostly positive) is what keeps me going!
K-pop has become a big part of my life and it’s bizarre my blog has gotten a lot of love for it. My k-pop posts now receive more traffic than my travel series these days.
As for stats…
Day website went live: 25th December 2009
Pageviews for January 2010: Less than 200
Highest pageviews recorded: March 2012 – 36,474 pageviews
Number of photos uploaded: 9,940. Even I’m startled to know how many photos I’ve worked on for this website.
The day my website crashed: A popular Manila personality named Carlos Celdran tweeted my thoughts on Philippines to his thousands of followers. And this happened a day after renewing with my web host. I was pissed, but later happy when I found out my post had now gone viral! 🙂
Those two days also saw the highest unique visitors I ever got
Most popular countries that drive traffic:
Singapore used to be higher, but got overtaken by Malaysia. And then Philippines shot past everyone to reach no. 3.
Most popular browsers my readers use: Chrome > Firefox > IE
Most popular traffic sources: 61.7% search traffic, 28.2% referral traffic, 10% direct traffic
Most popular keywords driving traffic: 1. “super junior mr simple” 2. “u-kiss neverland” 3. “miss a touch” (all K-pop)
Most popular social referrers: 1. Reddit.com (45%) 2. Facebook (41%) 3. Twitter (5%)
All data compiled from WordPress Stats, Google Analytics and Tynt
If I may say so, I’m proud of myself. Many people talk about starting their own blog, some do, but only a few ever keep at or take it to new heights. My dream was (and still is) that this website would make me enough money to focus on it full time. While that still remains a distant dream, who knows, the rate at which the daily traffic grows, I surely won’t need to wait two-and-half years to achieve the ‘1 million pageviews’ milestone.
Until then, keep reading, keep commenting – and keep me going! 🙂
