Scary Mornings

For those who wonder why, even after a spectacular start this new year, I have fallen back to coming in late for work. My excuse: I have had some very scary mornings. I strongly believe that waking up the right way helps you start the day in the right way. Hence, I have put a lot of thought into how to wake up the right way. I started with IKIMfm - the local Islamic station. The best way to wake up with to the sound of azan or call to prayers - it's soothing, it's loud and it reminds you that you have to get up for prayers. It was good for a while, I either exited my slumber to the sound of the azan, or to the sound of someone reading the Qur'an. Then one day, they changed to program slightly and my waking up time coincided with the reading of the Hadith. They really should quit using deep voices with echoes. The Hadith contains wonderful lessons on how Muslims should live our lives. But should they really read it out in THAT way? Especially so early in the morning?

Most of us, me especially, are pretty groggy when we wake up, and it doesn't matter what the guy is saying, because we won't be able to put two words ogether. But the tone of voice when these guys read the Hadith, especially when the only words you can get is neraka (hell), makes for a pretty rude awakening.

I did wake up on time, in a foul mood.

Moving on, I wanted to improve my morning temperament. I decided to experiment with WOW FM (Yasmin Yusoff's slot). Being the ultra-perky DJ that she is, I was hoping that some of the perkiness would rub off. That - and the fact that I woke up in time to hear one of the competitions - I won a Boyz2Men CD, which they haven't sent to me yet (can someone tell her that it's been 3 months at least!). This didn't work either. It was TOO perky. All those little "Good Morning" blurbs, done one after another, got way too annoying. I almost threw my remote control at the radio. Poor radio.

So I moved on to the next radio station, what everyone else listens to, Hitz FM (with little Kev and Fly Guy). They're good fun. They've been good fun until recently, when the station decided to play a commercial for "The Ring" (movie). How would you like to enter the "not asleep, but not awake" state with the sound of whispers and a scary guy voice saying "watch her video and you'll die in 7 days".

What a bad ad to put on in the morning! Don't they know that people wake up to these things?! I moved from Hitz to another English radio station and this ad seems to be everywhere! I am now scared to go to sleep and setting my alarm
feels like playing Russian roulette! This morning, I was fumbling around with the remote controls to shut that radio up before they got to the word 'die'. Hence my entrance at the office at 8.45am this morning. I'm taking my chances with IKIMfm tomorrow.

Posted by Najah Nasseri at 2003年01月09日 10:39