As part of our internship stint at Mothership.sg, we have to put ourselves in other people's shoes.

This is part of what being a writer is about, according to our kindly, good-looking and absolutely charming editor, who puts words into our mouths by editing our articles until they don't look like the original, and who will eventually give us our performance review at the end of our employment here, so we try to play nice.

So, what happened one weekday some time ago: We tried our hands at becoming food bloggers after being invited to a food tasting event organised by The Manhattan FISH MARKET, which according to our editors is a treat because we have been nothing but wonderful subjects of their wrath, so some nice food will tide us through the next few weeks before something nice or nicer comes along.

Hence, what we've learnt is that being a food blogger is tough work. There are many things that need to happen before the food on the plate gets turned into pictures featured in a blog and have some words written around them.

Without further ado, here are 5 reasons why being a food blogger in Singapore is absolutely tough work having undergone the experience for ourselves:

1. We need to get invited to eat food and there are companies that actually do that

Every week, using some non-scientific guesstimation, we believe thousands of invites are sent out to thousands of food bloggers to get them to sit down to have a meal and wax lyrical about it afterwards.

So, we had to pretend we are not just another regular ol' person, because we need to look like we know what we are doing.

2. We arrive, sit down and have all the food nicely plated in front of us

My goodness, the effort. We actually had to show up.

3. We have to take pictures of the food.

This is one of the hardest things. Because we had to bring a camera along with us, take it out, aim it at the food and click. And if it doesn't look good, we have to do it again. Shagged.

4. We had to try the food

Just when we thought our job of being a food blogger was done and we could leave, we had to eat.

And since there was so many varieties and servings of food, we had to eat a bit of everything which made our mouths tired from the chewing.

5. Then we had to use a thesaurus to find descriptive words.

So, the veggie bit is unctuous.

The seafood is succulent.

And the prawns are big. Or ginormous.

Overall, it would have been a wonderful experience because the food was nice, had it not been so much work.

The end.

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