It’s been a mad, mad few months. The SilatMelayu.Com (SMC) website has become a crawling baby. We currently have more than 160 members. Not much, I know, but it is a start. So far, I’ve uploaded 82 articles about silat and generally made my administrator and partner’s (Norazlan Abdul Wahid) life a living hell.

SMC has members from all over the world. Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand, America, Canada, United Kingdom, Ukraine… the list just keeps growing. What’s interesting is that although the site is getting close to 900 hits a day, there’s only one website that’s linking to us.

Being an SMC member has its benefits, as they have already discovered. Early on, I felt that visitors need good reasons to register as members. So, I thought, maybe they like free stuff, just like me! So, I started sending out ebooks at the end of every month.

The first sendout at the end of 2006 was the Silat Melayu Ezine (all four issues!) and the second was the PENDEKAR Magazine Covers Issues 1-10 at the end of January 2007. And waiting in my inbox, is the SILAT TUA: THE MALAY DANCE OF LIFE preview which will be sent out to all SMC members tomorrow. So, if you haven’t registered yet, do so quickly!

Anyway, take your last looks at SMC because in a couple of months, the layout will be drastically different. The design change we’ve been promising for months is finally going to take place.