Alafista.com has finally hit another major milestone – the 5,000 daily unique visitor mark, which I had been hoping for after so many months. I must give a big hug to all my wonderful readers who has kept coming back ^^

August 2009 had been a really busy month for me. It was really difficult to juggle between office work, attending photography classes on alternate Wednesdays, learning Japanese every Friday, and bring the Nendoroids out for photoshoots on alternate weekends for Nendo’s Travelogue [ねんどろいどの旅日記] Project. But still I managed to pull through and I’m happy to see that what I learnt from my photography classes had paid off ^^

Nonetheless, I’m still planning to serve you folks with more interesting bits of otaku and popular culture from Japan. For this month, one of the features that I’m reviving would be the weekly Japanese okashi お菓子 (snacks) review of yummy limited edition Pocky and KitKat, etc. It would be a weekly Sunday feature since weekends are the times when I consume losta snacks.

In addition, I’m also glad to announce that I’m one of the chosen affliate blogs for the upcoming AFA09 event. I must say a huge thanks to Maha for helping me create the banner. I do hope that this new partnership would bring introduce new readers to my site while at the same time through my site showcase to other parts of the world that Singapore has great anime events too ^^

More details for this month’s stats: July served just over 607,725 page views to an average of 5,123 unique daily users.  The monthly unique users amounted to an accumulative total of 158,836. As I’m mentioned earlier, hitting the 5k mark was a really important milestone for me, and I would love to see more readers gather to this site. The next milestone is of course the 6k mark which I target to achieve before my birthday in November. So do shout out to every friends and family members that you know and show them the wonder of otaku culture through here ^^

This month popular posts are: Crazy Otaku Crowds, Haruhi Cosplay by ちゃまろさん, Oricon: Men’s Favorite Gravure Idols, Haruhi Endless Eight Finally Ends!, Fairy Tail Anime Series Seiyuu Cast Unveiled, Interesting Events At Comiket 76, and Nozomi Sasaki Cooks For You.

The idols featured in the weekly gravure feature include: Anri Sugihara 杉原杏璃, Anri Sugihara 杉原杏璃, and Yuuki Fukasawa [深澤ゆうき] x Seiko Ando [安藤成子].