.: ShaolinTiger – Kung-Fu Geekery :.

As of now (since I installed the sitemeter) this site has welcomed 1,000,723 unique visitors with 1,845,073 page views.

That's quite a sum!

Also check this out, especially for fans of Gossip...a scandal in the socialite Metro Manila world - I've met some of the characters in the blog before and I've been to the place mentioned frequently more than once (Embassy).

It's an expose by an Australian who allegedgly got conned in the Philippines by one Delfin Justiniano Montano, it features the Gucci Gang, a pretentious bunch of coke snorting rich kids like Celine Lopez, DJ Montano, Tim Yap, and Wendy Puyat.

"DJ" Montano Delfin Justiniano Ocampo Montano II

Look at the insane traffic it's getting, it's probably since yesterday one of the most highly trafficked blogs in Asia! IF you want to read, make sure you read from oldest to newest. Lot's of people are getting exposed in the comments.

Apparently it's set Manila on fire and is slowly spreading through the Philippines - I wonder if the mainstream media will pick it up. It seems unlikely as Celine Lopez and her family seem to be quite influential and quite a few of them are involved with the media.

Thursday - 547
Friday - 6881
Saturday - 13,768
Sunday - 31,674

These are uniques too, not page views! I wonder how many it'll get today...and during the rest of the week as it gets spread around.

If you read any of the socialite Filipino blogs you'll probably recognise some of the people being 'exposed'. I do hope Brian gets his money back, I'd also be interested to hear the other side of the story as it's only one sided so far.

*UPDATE*

The story has finally reached the Philippines Inquirer (mainstream media) - no names named of course.

"Naming names: Online 'telenovela' indicts RP 'high' society"

The traffic is still going insane too with about 68,443 uniques yesterday!

In protest of no-one commenting on my entries.......NOT ENOUGH COMMENTS PEOPLE!

Come on you should know bloggers are comment whores, we thrive on comments...even though I see the page views, the unique visits....you are here, you are reading, watching, stalking..

Stop being silent, say something, say my post sucks, my pictures are bad....anything.

Anyway if you have something to say, anything to say - just comment. Don't be shy, I'd love to see at least 10 comments on every post.

Give me some feedback, let me know if I'm boring you, if I'm posting stuff that interests you - or otherwise.

Ok I’ve just painstakingly restored all the posts I could find since September 10th until now from Google Cache, I've lost some of the content of the posts (just a couple) because I was using the more tag...so they weren't cached on the front page and the individual posts weren't cached at all

Everything should be back up and working now! All posts are restored.

Anyhow things should all be restored now - and it was incredibly boring…so it shows the power of taking regular backups. I’m incredibly thankful I took my own backup on September 10th…I can’t imagine what it would be like if I hadn’t backed up or it was 2-3 months out of date.

I made a few upgrades as well seen as though I was re-installing the whole site..I’ve upgraded to the latest branch of Wordress - 2.3 and I’ve internalized the tags so they no longer point to Technorati. I’ve also upgraded all plugins and mods so we should be stable and secure now.

You can now click the tags on the index or inside posts and they will take you to the tag archive page for that tag.

The sites feels a bit faster and more responsive to me after I’ve upgraded to 2.3, but that might just be me.

Do let me know what the performance is like from your side, especially now I'm using a Malaysian host it should be much more responsive for local browsers.

Now I gotta set-up some proper back-ups!

If you spot anything funky or something going wrong/error/weird behaviour/files missing just drop me a comment or use the contact form and let me know.

There's just a couple of image files I've found which are missing and the CSS file needs a bit of tweak to get the comments looking nice again - but I think that's about it.

Upgraded, recovered and back on track.

Regular posting will resume in the next 1-2 days after I get some sleep. I've still got 6 million other things to do! Argh!

Thanks for the kind words, e-mails and comments - I appreciate it!

A while back I asked for open questions on this blog and got some interesting ones, I'll start out with the most frequently asked questions.

The most common of course is "Why ShaolinTiger? - Where did the name come from" and other similar questions of how did I choose it, do I like martial arts and so on.

I chose this name when I first joined the monkeys and tubes that make up the Interwebnets back in 1996 when I went to University in Liverpool.

Before that I didn't own a computer, didn't need a nickname and knew virtually nothing about the net. When I first got to uni they were still using Windows 3.11 and Yahoo! was king of search (makes me feel kinda old)..

And I'd heard about this thing called Internet Chat, so I chucked it into Yahoo! and out came mIRC, so I downloaded it and connected to DALnet #chatzone...that's the start of a whole other story.

Anyway, the point is to chat you need a nick, preferably a cool one...so I knocked my head trying to think up something.

At the time I was studying Kung Fu at the local univeristy club, Hung Gar Kuen to be exact - yes the same style from the family of Wong Fei Hung.

It's known as a style based on Tiger and Crane forms - Character Taming the Tiger Fist and Tiger Crane Paired Form Fist.

It also has some stuff on 5 elements and iron wire fist, it's a style very much based on stance. My sifu was second generation Shaolin and spent 2 years just doing horse stance before he even did any basic moves. Sadly in the Western World such slow learning wouldn't stick so things were rapidly accelerated.

I used to really enjoy sparring hard and the blood rushing to your head as the adrenaline kicks in.

Hung Gar was good, and was my second favourite training experience after Wing Chun.

I've always meant to talk more about martial arts..but I never have, is anyone even interested?

So back to my nick..... ShaolinCrane didn't sound very cool, so I went for ShaolinTiger seen as though I was studying Shaolin Kung-Fu and it was Tiger and Crane style.

And that was that...let's not talk about the Yahoo! e-mail address I ended up with as shaolintiger was taken even back then in 1996.

Yah so I finally got around to revamping this site, I've been meaning to do it for ages, I was still using WordPress 2.0.10 and hadn't even moved up to 2.2 branch yet.

Plus I was getting really bored of the old Chinese takeaway font header and the whole thing was too cluttered, it was giving me a headache.

This theme has been up since January 1st 2006 when I switched over to WordPress from bBlog. This was v2.0 of shaolintiger.com.

I did like it when I first did it, but moving to WordPress I think I went a bit overboard with things, especially the 10-mile long sidebars.

The loading time was a bit of a pig, it's much faster now..I feel anyway

Previous to that I was using bBlog since October 2004 when I launched this blog, that was v1.0 of shaolintiger.com.

I still really like the simplicity of bBlog and the template I was using.

bBlog was just getting bogged down with spam and lack of updates...that's why I jumped camp to WordPress, I can't say I've regretted it at all. I feel totally comfortable with WP now and power all of my sites with it.

I've updated all the plugins to the latest versions too, included proper tagging and a tag page.

Most of the clutter is gone including the long ass sidebars with all the useless junk. I've just kept a few things I like and find useful.

I've added a few more web2.0 widgets so you can stalk me easier and of course got a new header image.

It's about time I updated the About Me page aswell I think.

If you notice anything wrong or something out of place, or anything missing from v2.0 let me know in a comment or via the contact form.

Site was down for almost 48 hours! Terrible indeed.

The hard-drive failed, and the data recovery process was a long and arduous one, thankfully nothing was lost.

The site was up and down last night due to the data recovery running the processor load very high so sometimes the Database wasn't accessible.

Now it's back though, yay!

A lot of things to catch up with, and almost lost a Reviewme opp! Just 1 hour left to submit I managed to get it done, phew.

Also took the chance to upgrade the OS, the management system and everything else, so it should be more stable and slightly faster now.

Anyway better catch up with the other stuff.

Someone said I should write more interesting things..

Someone said I should write more about me..

Someone said I should cuss other people more..

Which makes me wonder am I interesting actually, what do you want to know about me?

So, I give you, my dear readers, this chance to ask me a question.

1 question each please, try and make sure the question has not already been answered.

If it's an interesting topic that I haven't already answered in my blog, I'll dedicate a whole post to it.

If it's an interesting topic I've already answered, I'll direct you to the post.

If it's something that requires a short answer I'll either answer in the comments or do 1 post with all the short answers.

So there you go, ask away.

Whatever you like, you can ask something about me, or my life here, or my life in Malaysia, or my opinion on something. Be imaginative!

In between these 'interesting posts' I shall continue to post my lame pictures and talk about food, because I like

After the 50 Most Influential Blogs in Malaysia article by gaman from Sabahan.com (Nice link-baiting dude), I feel sad.

Why?

Because my technorati rank used to be between 200-400 when it was low it was like 500-600..

Now..

NOW IT'S 25,286..

Yah, I need more links.

Well you can do a normal HTML link such as:

<a href="http://www.shaolintiger.com/"> ShaolinTiger - Kung-Fu Geekery</a>

Or use one of my fantasic banners/buttons:

<a href="http://www.shaolintiger.com/"><img src="http://www.shaolintiger.com/images/kungfubanner.jpg" alt="ShaolinTiger - Kung-Fu Geekery"></a>

<a href="http://www.shaolintiger.com/"><img src="http://www.shaolintiger.com/images/st_button.png" alt="ShaolinTiger - Kung-Fu Geekery"></a>

• IF you have a blog, LINK ME!
• IF you know anyone that has a blog, tell them to.. LINK ME!
• IF you don't have a blog, start one so you can...LINK ME!
• IF you don't even read my blog often, it doesn't matter...LINK ME!
• IF you've never read my blog before, it still doesn't matter...LINK ME!
• IF you think my blog sucks, it still really doesn't matter...LINK ME!
• IF you are cool, tell all your friends, family, pets and other things to start blogs...so they can, yeah..LINK ME!

Basically, the gist is please LINK ME!

Because I used to have loads of links, now I dont..which is kinda sad because I'm an attention whore.

I know I have more traffic than most of the people on the list and non of it is from search engines, you are all real readers.

So my dear real readers, please link me somewhere.

My page rank also dropped to 4, it's been 5 for about 2+ years

So it might help me get my pagerank back up as well.

I'll check back on my ranking in the next month or so and see if it's gone up, so yeah, link me now.

If I get more links and more traffic and more comments I'll be more happy so I'll do more nice posts and you'll all be more happy too.

Too those already linking me, THANKS!

Sorry for the lack of updates, my Streamyx was down since last Saturday morning, I just found out it was back up late last night, so it was down for about 9 days.

Merry Xmas to me, Streamyx is back!

Merry Xmas to you, you get new updates now!

(Apologies for the old picture, no working camera right now)

I've so much to post but had no connection...so there was nothing I could do which was a bit infuriating!

Anywhere here's an update and back to normal service soon now the connection is back.

Merry Xmas to all my faithful (and not so faithful readers) and I wish you all the best, I'll update again before new year so don't worry about that.

I wish you got all the presents you hoped for and you were good boys and girls so Santa treated you well, I got everything I wanted and more and had a great time catching up with friends last night at KY's party.

So Merry Christmas everyone and see you again soon!

It's two years since I've been filling the Internet with my bullshit, amazing eh?

It was October 19th 2004 when I wrote my first proper post on bBlog, time flies eh?

I e-mailed a few people and got comments on my first post, teh awesome!

I got deep into bBlog and even did some development for them, the whole thing was setup with Textpad, Paintshop Pro and hard work!

I moved to Wordpress January 1st 2006, earlier this year, so it's been about 10 months with Wordpress.

I do suggest going back through my archives and reading my earlier posts as I was a bit crazy then so it was interesting, you can see how varied my posts are aswell and how inconsistent they were, I used to write a lot about my personal life and about 5-6 different things in one post a-la-lainie style.

Of course I also wrote some great posts, but not all the time Some memorable ones from the first two months would be...

• The Asian education mindset..and how it worries me
• Ah Lians Lian, Ah Bengs Beng, Lala's and aLtErNaTiNg cApItAlS
• Inconsiderate Drivers & Road Hogs.

Anyway happy birthday to me blog, it's getting older..and hopefully better!

This year has loads of good posts, but you've probably read em all so no point linking those You can check them out on the archives page or just look at the most popular posts page for an idea on what people like.

I hope you all enjoy my blog as much as I enjoy writing it, even though I kinda run out of things to say sometimes, I thank you muchos all my commenters and readers for giving me the incentive to write.

Even if you are a silent violet just drop a comment on this post so I know you are there.

I forgot to post this earlier in the day, I'm having some kinda flu thing because of my dust allergy and the haze so I sleep most the time and the rest I feel like I'm gonna itch my eyes out and put them in the fridge.

Nice!

Last years blog birthday post here.