the LED streetlamp (pathway lamp) shot from the northwest window 15 minutes ago — it’s bleak before it gets bright and brighter: Good morning! (at the moment series). Not a food photo series.

Like many people, upon waking up: you can start with  a glassful of room-temperature drinking water (some drink more than a glass. My Chinese oriental Eastern health consultant says that cold water actually “shocks” your stomach (like crime news early in the morning)

and makes your stomach contract abruptly and, in time, when you subject your stomach to such stress, it will weaken. i don’t know — i read in magazine that movie stars who diet, like Beyoncé, drink many glasses of  ice-cold water before a meal to contract their stomach inside so it will not accept too much food. i don’t know:

i wouldn’t want to “shock” my stomach too much and too often so i’ll go with the Chinese oriental Eastern health practice… then, after a few minutes, still half-asleep:  a glass of wheatgrass juice (this is Western, i think; that is — discovered in the West). Then, asanas, ashtanga: that’s Eastern (India) with modifications from the West. i’ve finished my plough, crunches, dead bugs, and leg-raises (that’s East and West). Breakfast in a few minutes will be: steamed oww-kra (okra, silly), with spicy tuyó and lots of kalamansi to neutralize the salt of the tuyó (it’s easy to make steamed okra 🙂 ) ; bananas, grainy bread with tuna and egg, lettuce, tomatoes (it’s easy to make a sandwich and press it in the sandwich-maker to make it taste like a gourmet sandwich), vegan café latté. Then, small pineapple chunks and mango juice: Magandang umaga!