My Desire To Start A Blog

My desire to write and start a blog which I titled it as RandomThoughts! was a challenge of my writing skills when Negros Bloggers President H. James Toga added me to Negros Bloggers closed group in Facebook, wherein good writers, good bloggers chatted regularly, especially at night.

Every time I opened my computer to browse the Internet I directly signed in to my Facebook account and visited Negros Bloggers Page. There I saw several links of their blogs, which out of my curiosity, I read them all. Until I became acquainted with the members of NB and befriended with them. And I sensed my belongingness with this group which is composed of students, government employees, freelance writers, businessmen, realtors, legal luminaries, news reporters. They were the pioneers of NB as the core group.

As I regularly followed up their blogs, I said to myself, "This is a challenge of my writing prowess to start a blog of my own. But of course not to compete with them for they'd different fields of expertise and mine is different too. Therefore, doing what I could muster to start a blog is the answer. I started with a unique title, with a controlled contents of various topics which I believe could get the interest of my readers.

Gil Camporazo's RandomThoughts First Blogversary!

It was 3rd of February 2011 when this RandomThoughts! was born.

Finding faults! was the first blog I wrote as a reaction to Juana Change's video satirically "belittling President Aquino's private life."

The Book of Matthew (Matthew 7:1-5) in the Bible is crystal clear why we shouldn't find other's faults, that's the foundation of my premise of support.

One hundred fifty-six articles so far had been written by me and posted them here till RT reaches its first anniversary in this month of February 2012.

As of this writing, 29,537 visitors registered in RandomThought's counter.

At its inception, RandomThoughts' started with an Alexa rank of 15,367,892 till it improved to 2,264,171. And eventually it got its own domain through an invaluable help from C5 Ghosty Writery, a fellow blogger worldwide in December 14,2011. Now its present Alexa Rank is 612,537 with pagerank 1 in Google, which it regains after losing it when RT got its own independent domain. Thus, it took one month and 22 days to retake its pagerank of 1 on February 6, 2012.

My Blog Receives An Award and a Token as a 'Labor of Love'

Gil Camporazo holds a token as the best blogger.

The "labor of Love" is symbolized by a plow which is the token I received from Negros Bloggers to recognize me as one of the best bloggers in the Visayas in this year 2011.  NB/NDB writer Gil Severino, the program emcee puts it as a "labor of love" and it is very true indeed for my name so suggests it is an acrostic of God Is Love.

The awards I received were the "Best Blog in Culture and Arts" for Tumandok and "Best Blog in Lifestyles" for RandomThoughts!. These were given by the prestigious award-giving body, The Philippine Blog Awards Inc. established in 2007 which aims "to recognize the best in the Filipino Blogging Community."