Getting ready for 1,000,000 views by August.

With a very good friend Tom Gan for lunch yesterday 

When I first started my blog way back in May 2008, I was on the mend from a health scare just one and a half years before that where I had blacked out during a training session at karate class at the Tanglin CC.

I had realized that life is truly short, and I decided to keep an online diary of sorts so I could one day read and laugh or cry at my past mistakes, glories and disappointments. As the views started to grow, it became apparent that there are people actually visiting the site and  the world can be a small village through digital and social media. A lot of values from all over the world are similar with some distinction between the cultures but essentially people exhibit the same traits worldwide.

The blog hit 3000 views some 2 years on in 2010 (that is about 1500 views per year), and the eyeballs and readership grew. I was keeping score to make any sense of it, but the fact of it, is that the global connections are vast, and there are many people visiting, not all for good intentions.

The math is unreal. This year alone, on certain months, the views are averaging 100,000 views PER MONTH. 

In this month alone, I believe the blog can easily hit 200,000 views. The algorithm or something is making the views skyrocket. 

Regardless, I put my content on my blog in the hope that this scribe can one day look back at his life and regale to his grandkids (if we are fortunate to have them) about what his life was like way back in the mid 20th century.