Life is short, lets make it sweet.: top blogger

Atlast, I get to join the top bloggers league last Friday when I touched my rank 112. It was one of my memorable milestones to be specific a dream come true. It might sound silly for some but definitely not for me. Its been one of my milestones or short term goals to make to top blogger league. I know its vision of many bloggers out there. I am happy to be a one to make it.

When I started blogging very actively in Jan of this year, I always wondered about the Top bloggers faces show up on the left of Sulekha main page. I decided and set my goal to make to the list one day. I started my journey to post atleast one blog a day and thought it would be an easy ride but it wasn't for a guy who never wrote anything informative, funny and valuable to others.

It took me,

8 months(240 days) of blogging on an average 1 blog a day

210 Blogs including 4 Travelogues, 10 movie reviews

2280 posts including comments, discussions, blogs all together

average 1 featured/showcased blog for a month, total 10 as of today

alteast 10 blog friends/fans who visited every blog of mine

Its indeed a wild ride which kept me busy and entertained during this tenure. So its worth a celebration. I like to celebrate this happy moment sharing with my fellow bloggers who helped me to get to this level.

Like the saying,

"One who never forgets the path he traveled and people who helped him on the way always set to win the forts"

Thank you all my friends who accepted my scribbles and thoughts/views and motivated me to write more with your kind open comments. I like to make a special mention of few fellow blogger friends who read almost every blog of mine and never failed to comment,

Ranjini
Melody Queen
Ether
Silvia

Others who were get to read some and always shared open thoughts,

Usha
VerboseViju
Kalyanee
Nargisji
Indu
Kiran
Raj
maddss123
snowey

and few others who visited my blog on and off to shower their valuable comments.

THANK YOU ALL FOR the comments and notes which inspired me to never falter and write more in the sulekha blogdom.

Also Sulekha just made a blogger out of me. So I can't never forget them. My humble Thank you to Sulekha Team who had sent me some encouraging emails to blog more and more on every featured post.

This journey has been so interesting to me. I learned a great deal during this blogging adventure. From now on, I don't have to worry about my blog being disappeared in no time by tons of bloggers coming out. It will atleast stay for a while for lot more people to check it out.

I am sure you all enjoyed my blogs. I plan to entertain(bug) you all more and more with my intuitive and informative writings and will try to make up to the top leaguers expectation.

Hope you all it. You all better like it.

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List of my featured blogs I liked most, if you want to check it out:

BRAVEHEART - Taste the essence of success
My First Marathon Run - A Real Story
CURD RICE - Poor Man's Rich Meal!!
Tribute to PRINCESS DIANA - One Lady, the world loved most...

Obviously, I am not talking about my age. I would love to live that long but I am just little excited and happy to share my accomplishment in getting to Rank #249 from Rank #10590 today. It only took me 95 posts and few comments to get there in 114 days. It was a good journey with nice experience in writing and learning to reach this milestone in my first ever blogging adventure. I am just thrilled on getting to board with TOP BLOGGER list under Rank #250.

This is not just a post to brag about myself on becoming one of the top 250 blogger. Its about the one of small moments which happens to few bloggers to cherish the effort put forth. Its time to look back a bit to dwell on the road travelled during the journey which would help me to fine tune myself to continue further to contribute more.

I just happen to signup Sulekha to put a classified ad in 2004 but only published my first blog in Apr 2005. I never turned back to this side after that until I get the mail from Sulekha team this Jan which encouraged me to start back again on my blogging to take on the adventure of experiencing blogger world which got hotter in recent days.

I was always a goal oriented person. I set goals for anything whether its big or small I wish to do. So I set out the goal to reach the top blogger list before I leave India for my vacation in May first week. Some may say its silly but it was't that easy. Once I got into it, blogging community kept me alive and addicted with the drug of some featured blogs and encouraging comments from vivid sulekha bloggers.

I know lot of people don't like the ranking system but its a paddle to push to deliver your best. To tell frankly, its not just the ranking system which pushed me to get here. Its the like minded people who encouraged me all along with their valuable and kind comments like a tonic for me to write more and more to contribute to this community. I am not saying just because to get more comments on this post.

I really mean it. If I don't get comments on a post, I would think may I didn't present this right. May be I have to do better in my next post. It helps me to reevaluate my work and do better it. So I really mean that this blog community is way better than any one I ever seen. Every blogger in this community is a part and parcel of every other blogger growth.

I like to thank some of my blogger friends for encouraging and supporting with your kind words. Comments are always boost for any bloggers. I am strong believer of the idea to encourage a person which will push them to achieve more. Simply saying, "Pat your back on every milestone, that will help to get you going further more ahead".

I thought it will be cake walk to reach the 250 with some post and comments. But it wasn't really. It was a fly get to rank 1000 posting some silly blogs but after that its just take forever in small turtle step forward. It takes every effort from you to contribute a good post to publish and get acknowledged from bloggers.

Since I always track my effort which helps me to plan to reach my goal. I can tell you that it took me only 1month to get to 500 from 1000 but it took the same amount of time to go from 500 to 250. This is my 96th blog post, 4 away from my century. I also used to share my featured blogs and growth with my wife and send the links to my friends. They congratulate and wish me best with their kind words which really pushed me to do deliver more and more..

Blogging really changed a lot in me as person to express and share my thoughts openly to like minded people to get some valuable feedback. It also opened me a door to write to express my view point and learn from others. It is also a place to involve others and impress them on your ideas. I been learning some good words lately which I started using in my day-today life.

There is lot more to it than just posting the blog and writing comments. I am not sure how I am going to continue to contribute when my wife and kid come from vacation. Its going to be hard but I am going to try my best to contribute to share my views..

My featured posts(last 4months)

Its a bandh or bad Showcase - Feb 14th - Rank 2070

http://houstonvijai.sulekha.com/blog/post/2007/02/its-a-bandh-or-bad-showcase-.htm

Braveheart - Taste the essence of Success - Feb 27th - Rank 1371

http://houstonvijai.sulekha.com/blog/post/2007/02/braveheart-mantra-s.htm

TOUR OF SPACE CITY HOUSTON - Apr 11th - Rank 293

http://houstonvijai.sulekha.com/blog/post/2007/04/tour-of-space-city-houston.htm

My First Marathon - A real story - Apr 17th - Rank 272

http://houstonvijai.sulekha.com/blog/post/2007/04/my-first-ever-marathon-a-real-story.htm

A Miracle yet to Happen - Apr 24th - Rank 249

http://houstonvijai.sulekha.com/blog/post/2007/04/miracle-yet-to-happen.htm

My Posts (I liked not featured)