Early riser
I am a morning person and find it easy to be up and about early in the mornings.
This works very well with the fact that traffic on the roads is much easier if u leave for work before the sun is up.
I am up by 5.30 am (o.k. ...I have an alarm clock for this, but I never need to put the snooze button on).
I leave my condo around 6.30am when it is still rather dark at this part of the world.
I love driving around this time of the day. It is much cooler (sometimes below 80F) with not much traffic. The sun slowly makes its way up and beautifully lights up the earth. I enjoy the changes of the views with the natural change of the lighting. The best thing is this happens almost every day through out the year because living so close to the equator, there is no spring, summer, autumn or winter. It is just summer with rain or summer without rain here! Lovely.
I like it a lot less on the rainy days cos the sun is hidden by the thick clouds and is unable to do its job.
I am normally at work by 7 am. Almost always amongst the first to arrive. Officially we start work at 8am. I have an extra hour daily giving me some kind of a head start. Most of the people at work have to clock in at 8am to 5pm but my job allows for flexible hours. This means I can leave at whatever time as long as I make a certain minimum hours per week BUT I need to get the job done no matter what. Thus it also means working thru many weekends when it is needed.
I tend to keep with the 'early to rise' habit even on weekends and on vacations.
Maybe its one of the reasons why I gel well with JAR and his family. They were raised on a farm and have been trained to be up extra early. They follow that thru even till now - years later when they all live in the city and have professional jobs. All of us would be up early and ready for the day on our travels.
This also means we are all tired out early in the evenings.
Thus, not much need for night life.
Of course when I was much younger I too have had the taste of that but u soon grow (at least I did) out of the meaningless dressing up and hanging out with people who are probably not being their true selves partying the night away.
I prefer my current routine and am so glad that I surround myself with people of the same habit.
Note:
I am currently at the hospital waiting for my turn to see the specialist. Of course I had arrived way before time. Gotten my number and sitting peacefully with my net-book typing this.
Keeping urself mentally busy is the way to stop worrying. :-)
This works very well with the fact that traffic on the roads is much easier if u leave for work before the sun is up.
I am up by 5.30 am (o.k. ...I have an alarm clock for this, but I never need to put the snooze button on).
I leave my condo around 6.30am when it is still rather dark at this part of the world.
I love driving around this time of the day. It is much cooler (sometimes below 80F) with not much traffic. The sun slowly makes its way up and beautifully lights up the earth. I enjoy the changes of the views with the natural change of the lighting. The best thing is this happens almost every day through out the year because living so close to the equator, there is no spring, summer, autumn or winter. It is just summer with rain or summer without rain here! Lovely.
I like it a lot less on the rainy days cos the sun is hidden by the thick clouds and is unable to do its job.
I am normally at work by 7 am. Almost always amongst the first to arrive. Officially we start work at 8am. I have an extra hour daily giving me some kind of a head start. Most of the people at work have to clock in at 8am to 5pm but my job allows for flexible hours. This means I can leave at whatever time as long as I make a certain minimum hours per week BUT I need to get the job done no matter what. Thus it also means working thru many weekends when it is needed.
I tend to keep with the 'early to rise' habit even on weekends and on vacations.
Maybe its one of the reasons why I gel well with JAR and his family. They were raised on a farm and have been trained to be up extra early. They follow that thru even till now - years later when they all live in the city and have professional jobs. All of us would be up early and ready for the day on our travels.
This also means we are all tired out early in the evenings.
Thus, not much need for night life.
Of course when I was much younger I too have had the taste of that but u soon grow (at least I did) out of the meaningless dressing up and hanging out with people who are probably not being their true selves partying the night away.
I prefer my current routine and am so glad that I surround myself with people of the same habit.
Note:
I am currently at the hospital waiting for my turn to see the specialist. Of course I had arrived way before time. Gotten my number and sitting peacefully with my net-book typing this.
Keeping urself mentally busy is the way to stop worrying. :-)
Labels: early riser
posted by akumangkok at
7:52 AM
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