i always look forward to fridays. apart from the obvious reasons, it’s the day you’d see a phalanx of SHOs and SpRs from my department marching down to the cafeteria for breakfastat about 9 am. when i first started working in this place, it was just a handful of trainees together with two of the consultants, one of whom would bring his own bottle of heinz’s tomato ketchup (rightly so, as it costs 11p a sachet!). the lab staff would know that the club members would not be available for the next 45 minute to start the surgical cut-up (that’s the methodical chopping up of surgically-removed tissue/organ fixed in formalin, small enough for processing to make it into glass slides). over the years, i’ve seen the members of the breakfast club (not exactly exclusive) come and go, moving on to new posts and promoted to the upper echelons of consultantdom. on some fridays, the club member numbers would go down to just the two, seen happily munching away on a typical british fry up while catching up with the latest departmental goss or have a big whinge, as we all do. my usual would be either scrambled eggs or fried eggs (runny as hell), two hash browns, a dollop of beans and two toasts. lately, i’ve opted for the less deadly fried egg-hash brown combo in a breadcake (a poor man’s McEgg). nowadays, with most of the members of the original club gone, fridays aren’t the same as it used to be.
do you have a makan routine with your workmates?
11p a sachet?
You serious?
ya-hah.
No wonder Mrs Heinz-Kerry is rolling in it!
It all….it all…..makes…..sense…now!
For a moment there I thought that pic was some obscure body part that you had just .. umm… cut up/out, Doctor.
HAHAHA
I wish I HAD workmates, to have a makan ‘ritual’ but these days it’s all rush-and-go. When I used to work (several millennia ago), my colleagues woul have the typical Malaysian brekkie of nasi lemak/nasi goreng/mee goreng that I just couldn’t stomach at that early an hour so I never joined them. That and the fact that someone had found a sauteed cicak in her sambal (and was struggling to cut it with her fork and spoon thinking it was a piece of sotong!) at our office building’s food court didn’t actually make me run to join them. 😛
LOL
Kudo… can’t you make the font of this comment box any SMALLER?
😛
angie: default font lah.
aduhai man: the 11p sauce is some NHS brand, not even heinz! 🙁
Sos Tomato jenis NHS?
Sebelas pence?
In sudah melampau. Sungguh melampau!
LOL
i dunno why hospital canteens are so stingy with ketchup, jams and butter. bringing my own ketchup is a good idea. i’m sure nobody will want to sit with me during lunch though… 😀
Oh mi god… Sudden flashbacks of fries and ketchup at the Royal Hallmshire canteen…
Still so much better than Northern General’s… (Have they done it up by now I wonder or is it still the same in that old admin building?)
yuna: you were in sheffield?? do i know you?
roti rupanya..ingat apa tadi.