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by Philipina A. Marcelo
I'm a breakfast person... and it's not only because I like Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.'s "Breakfast of Champions". :) During workdays, I like waking up early in the morning and starting my day in the kitchen - cooking "big breakfast" - with the TV tuned in to a sports channel showing replays of tennis matches in
Big breakfast for a "big day"majors or football matches in the background. This suits my work schedule as well because I usually start my lectures at 7:00 AM, or I hear mass at the University church at 7:00 AM when I'm not lecturing. I live about 15 km from the University, and with the Metro-Manila rush-hour traffic, it means I need to leave my house at 6:00 AM to get to the University with a few minutes to spare, say "hi" to people before 7:00 AM. And so, I get up at around 4:30 AM, do my morning stretches and sit-ups while watching Stephen Sackur interview someone on BBC's "HARDtalk", cook... eat breakfast while getting my morning fill of the news... pack my fruit snack, and then prepare to go to work. Yes, I'm one of those lucky people who get to enjoy seeing their surroundings turn from darkness to light, until it becomes bathed in cheerful morning sunshine on an almost daily basis. :)
Hmmm... life is good! :)
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