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How to Wake Up Early in the Morning |
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Written by Felix Wong - View Profile
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Sunday, 29 April 2007 |
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For the last week or so, I've been waking up at about 6:10am, which is quite a bit earlier than usual. Why is that? Well, let me tell you about my new alarm clock.
This alarm clock, like a diligent rooster, detects when the sun is just peeping over the horizon. However, instead of giving off a "cock-a-doodle-doo," it makes a more rhythmic noise, which sounds exactly like a neighbor nailing siding to the exterior of his home every three seconds.
In fact, the first day I heard it, that's exactly what I thought was the noise. The second day, however, I thought someone was knocking on the door, so I bolted downstairs to check. Nobody there.
By the third day, I was no longer fooled, but I still was awoken at this hour, which in truth was a little earlier than my exhausted body wanted to.
"Why don't you just turn the alarm clock OFF then," you may ask?
Well, for one thing, this is not an alarm clock I purchased, placed by my bed, and turned on. No, in fact, it is... a bird! The dumbest bird in the world, I am convinced.
Let me explain.
So after the third day of this nonsense, I ran downstairs only to see a perky, orange-bellied bird attacking the window by the dining room. Unlike a woodpecker, however, it wasn't just pecking at the window, it was actually going full kamikaze into it, as if it wasn't there.
Now, last month I did wash the window, but it is not so clean that you wouldn't think it wasn't there. (Indeed, now it has a gazillion beak marks on it, courtesy of the orange-bellied bird. ) And you would think the bird would have learned after the 50th time it nearly bonked itself out on the window.
"Maybe," I thought, "it is attracted to the orange flowers on the dining room table." So I moved the flowers to some inconspicuous area on the floor. The 4th day, no bird crashes. Success!
Or so I thought until the fifth day.
That day I heard the now-familiar knocking noises at the now customary waking hour of 6:10am, only to see the bird attacking not only the dining room window, but an adjacent window with a screen on it. It seems like the last couple of days it's actually been favoring the screen.
I told (or rather, complained) to my friend Tori about this, and she has a theory.
"Funny about your bird. Maybe she has a crush on you! Maybe she just really wants to be an indoor bird."
Great, I may now be a victim of a bird stalker.
Well, at least I am having no problems waking up early anymore. So for those sleepyheads who want to get up earlier, just get a bird!
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