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I have never joined a food eating contest because I am the type of person that likes to chew my food well and really savor its taste. But I am amazed at how fast some people can eat especially those that join food eating contests and really win the challenge. I even saw one contest in one of the tv shows and its amazing how some participants are so fit. I imagine them to be big and fat since most fat people eat a lot. However, some are actually fit but chew food at an amazing rate. I wonder how they do it though because I usually am the last person on the table when I’m with my friends. I just think that eating fast would really satisfy your taste and hunger so I tend to chew my food slowly and enjoy its taste.

As I checked online, food eating contest have actually been made as a world competition. Hundred of people around the world participate in this worldwide eating contest where they are given a variety of dishes. Thousands of people also come and really make an effort to witness such competitions. I am not a fan of food eating contests though, I just think that there are so many hungry people in the world to even waste food for just a competition.

Since the other day, I’ve been caught up with lots of offline activities and I wasn’t able to go online for almost the whole 2 days.  This left me having so much blog feeds to peruse in my reader and mind you, I spent close to two hours skimming through my 800+ feeds.  For most, I just browsed the article titles and marked it as read if it’s not that so interesting.  There’s one that’s pretty interesting that I really had to digest each word.  The topic was investing a gold bullion.  I’ve always been interested with this kind of investment but unfortunately, I just don’t have the right resources to learn from the basics of this business.  I just learned about the website of United States Gold Bureau and I find it useful especially for those newbies like me who are clueless on starting it up.  An article says that one need not start big right away.  One can just buy a single gold coin for a startup and from there, he can go and explore further the other aspects of this investment.

I took the online quiz “Are You A Good Cook?” at blogthings and I couldn’t agree more with the results I got.

You Are a Learning Cook

You’ve got the makings of an excellent cook, and the desire to be one. But right now, you’re just lacking the experience. You couldn’t be a top chef yet, but you could be an apprentice.

Yes, admittedly, I’m still in the learning process since I was not exposed in our home kitchen when I was younger.  I actually find interest and enjoy more eating than cooking, with all honesty.  That’s why I never intended nor dreamed to become a chef.  I’d rather be engaged with handling document management software and computers rather than kitchen utensils and ovens.

But now that I’ve got a family and we’re living on our own, I am forced to learn how to cook.  So far, I’m enjoying it and I’m in a continuous pursuit to learn more new recipes.