Why did i first start this blog?

I stood up and waved at the man to come. "Boss, kira" i shouted as i was running late. Somehow or rather, without anything to focus on, i took this picture. Eventhough, i still cant figure what is so great about the picture, i still like it. Is it the 3 different colour canvas that is covering me from the rain? or the green poles that is holding the canvas that caught my attention?

I am taking a short break from my studies, and the picture i guess was there because it needs to be there, eventhough it doesnt serve the topic i would like to blog about today.

Infact the title says it all.I asked myself this question time over time, why did i start to blog? Particularly a food blog as well. When i first started, i wanted to talk to four walls and like a naive kid, a dream to conquer the mass online readership and eventually become famous. There was no structured way of getting there, i wanted to just blog what i wanted to blog about and hopefully create a love rather then hate relationship with my readers. Recently, i also had plans for a career change and it striked me that my passion for food and photography could take me one step further. How? Become a food writer? Or could i take it one step further and become even more ambitious and become a food critique?

I am never afraid to say what i want, but yesterday's dinner sparked off what i am trying to say..

Apparently, there very well could be a way to make a career out of what i am doing right now. Think about it, theres Nuffnang and Advertlets, advertising through blogs. How about advertising through food blogs? New restaurants needing some stirred interest in their food or just wanting to create some awareness. Why dont they come find a couple of us and advertise their places through food blogs? We could do a review of their food and hey presto! we could even get some moolah if the restaurants find that it works..

Lets not rush there yet, but will it work? I am not exactly the biggest food blogger in the world, i am yet an infant with just one or rather two front big teeth, still struggling to chew my food in this online world but i know that what we need will be rather recognised people that can reach more people then i can in a week in one day to advertise, but will they? Is money really about everything in the world? I personally feel they wont and hey, if not for the chance i could actually get away from the sick working world, i also wont. Why? simply because (i am pretty sure as well) the main reason why these bloggers started blogging was for the passion of food. Just look at our appetites and the love of food we have from our flawless gatherings..

Which comes to a premature conclusion. How can i make this work? I realised that this could very well mean a way out of the modern slavery world but the light is dim that i wonder if its because i am just sleepy or my eyes requires some checking. Rambling on, i think i need not go around in circles.

Yesterday, we were "invited" for a free tasting in a restaurant that you will probably see in my blog in a couple of days. Infact it was the 2nd time. The first time around, we obliged and wrote a review of the food, a true account and without the owner having to say anything. After all, what else could we do since she didnt want our money?

Back to the 2nd time, i would give a round of applause for the organiser to setup this gathering but i would like to ask one simple question. Do you think the bloggers were there because of the free food only? Or was it just a chance to meet up and chit chat, taking pictures as a passion and spending the night away with laughter? I would be very disappointed if my fellow bloggers chose the 1st, because i am definitely the latter.

Even a small kid would know that theres no free meal in this world. True enough it wasnt exactly free as i felt the atmosphere felt very obliging to say the least. I appreciate the warm welcome from the host of the restaurant but i felt like i was rather pressured by our organiser to remember every little fact that was circled around about dish A, B and C and so forth. I had to struggle to try to picture my review as it was rather bluntly said that we were to review this place "properly"..

I very well love the idea of bringing this passion of mine to another step and i sense my organiser might be too, but i guess its too premature for me at least..Let me get back to studying and sleep over it next month, i am sure this might work out, just abit more trial and error up in my head..Meanwhile i am open up to any opportunities to work with people or open up for ideas..

Have a good weekend guys and it was nice meeting up with a bunch of newly made friends..

P/S: Readers out there, do you really trust me when i say the food is good, because i very damn think that you guys do, so i guess theres no need for me to describe what ingredients makes up the dish right?