Switching On the Sun

In a way, this is some "food for thought" kind of a thing. Food for hard thinking actually. In fact, I thought of posting it in our "Eats OA" food blog considering how this whole "bloggers vs mainstream media" issue being ~ "Eats OA", I mean "It's OA" , yet more like "OR (Over Reaction)". Aptly enough, it's about the "OR" (or who "Owns the Right") to be the "Official Reporter (OR)" vs who's "Over Rated (OR)"... I've just read about some reporters under the Presidential news beat to be up in arms against the accreditation of bloggers in covering Presidential events. Suggestive of their point is that bloggers don't have the kind of credibility they've been qualified for under the significance that they've earned it more than anyone else through a 4-year course and have gone through great extent of experiences before having earned such "Presidential prest...

At times, having an appetite for something pleasing to the palate comes about as hunger strikes. Dining out allows one to satisfy such craving. From the menu, food names or even the images are cooked up to be favorably inviting; not to mention the enticing aroma. Partial of anything hot and spicy, I ordered “Spicy Roasted Squid” from a Korean restaurant we were to dine in for the first time. As it turned out, I was just able to fill my stomach, fulfill my hunger yet spill dissatisfaction (Burp! Fart! Sigh). Subsequently, passing through some American sounding Chinese restaurant, my wife thought we could have dined there instead. I can’t complain though. Perhaps, I ordered the wrong food. For all I know, what I had could be someone else’s heavenly treat. Makes me wonder, are food experts/critics’ taste buds same as anyone else to be credible enough to know what tastes good or what doesn’t for others? Oops, just a ‘pungent’ thought. Lest their exquisite taste will smell fishy, let us ju...