FD Day 16: Guest Post from Down Under

Remember I said I'll have a friend to guest-post for my Food Diary? Well today is the day! :)

Let me start off with a little introduction to my darling friend, Jun. We go way back, back to when we were innocent kids in uniform and over-sized T-shirts, shorts, and geeky glasses (and in my case, with braces too). :D Jun is now "Dr. Jun" residing in Melbourne, and she one proficient writer who blogs about everything from her physician-insider's stories (here's one), to food (yes she's a foodie just like me that's why we get along sooooo well hehe!), to her travels, and everything else in between. Above all else, she's one of my few oldest, best-est friends, and my inspiration and motivation. She's my starbucks buddy; and she promised to VISIT ME SOMETIME AND VISIT THE BIG APPLE TOGETHER (ahem woman hint hint I'm still waiting for you to fulfill your promise before I run out of my time here in the US)!!! :P

So yes, if you're too busy and have no time for anything else, her blog is the only other thing you should read. ;)  Having said that, here's her food diary post. Enjoy!

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It's like you're a daisy who's grown up in a buttercup field all your life, and all of a sudden, you're plucked from the field and the next thing you know, you're sharing a crystal vase with a bunch of roses. How do you introduce yourself? Do roses speak the same language as buttercups? What do you talk to them about? Discuss the different types of soil? Ask them if they know anything about life of a hydroponic plant? Or, if all else fails, talk about the weather??

That's precisely what I'm going through now as I pen this post for my dear friend as part of her Food Diary project, though of course, I don't really wanna tell you how cold it is here in Melbourne right now. After all, do you really wanna listen to weather-speak? Exactly. But then, at the same time, are you really interested to find out what's gone down my digestive system in the last 24 hours? I have a sneaky suspicion that my dear friend so kindly asked me to guest blog in her Food Diary series just so that she wouldn't be the only one advocating junk consumption with a conscience :P 

Then again, looking at the list below, her cheetos and graham crackers and oatmeal are beginning to look like gourmet grub compared to what I've eaten:

- Breakfast (1930): Chewy penne with canned tuna, carrots, tomato and cheese gone horrendously wrong. Reminder to self: Never buy wholemeal penne again. Ever. (Trust me, people, it's made of plastic. No, really.)

- Coffee (2000): Hey, coffee is a meal in itself, if not an INSTITUTION. It's the rich, dark, elixir that keeps us doctors alive on the wards, which, in turn, means keeping sick people alive-- unless they're palliative or NFR (Not for Resuscitation).

- Lunch (technically, could've had it at midnight, but after starting my night inserting a urinary catheter into an elderly man with thrush on his penile tip resembling curds of cheese, and then having to perform a rectal examination on another lady with PR bleeding, my appetite was completely suppressed for the next few hours, so I ended up eating only at 0330): Hospital remains of a sandwich pack consisting of, let's see, hmm...

1. Egg and mayo
2. Semi-dried tomato (like, literally, not the actual semi-dried tomatoes that you get in the dried goods/ gourmet food sections) and a leaf of wilted lettuce
3. Ham and chesse with chutney spread (don't ask, at least it's not Vegemite)
4. Ohmygoodnesswhatthehellisthis??? (Seriously, sometimes, I don't even know what I'm putting into my mouth...)

- Dinner (0800): Peanut butter and banana + multigrain Weetbix with Milo. Best meal of the day ever!

Okay, gotta sleep now. We can talk about cheese curds another time ;)

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End of post. Many thanks to my dear friend who's kind enough to humor me by doing this. Hugs and kisses.:)