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Top Of The Morn'

Finally finished the jar of theJune Taylor Cherry Preserves. Now, June Taylor does make wonderful jams, all hand-made with local, organic fruit with the most minimal amount of sugar and additives. It's great that they preserve the original nature of the fruit as much as possible, but when with the cherry preserve, the hunks of whole fruit made it impossible to spread. So the toast would be covered with a thin layer of pectin and a few bits of intensely flavored cherry chunks. And that's just not how I want my toast, damn it. Thankfully now I can move on to the easily spreadable peach preserve. Goes great with some sweet butter and a hunk of Yamazaki's Levain French or the Classic Baguette from Levain Bakery in the XinYi Eslite.

After breakfast, it's time to head out to work. The iPod makes the commute tolerable, but my own music collection was getting stale under the repetition. Thankfully, music podcasts such as the KUT Music Without Borders program introduces plenty of fresh material and keeps me in-the-loop on the up-and-coming indies. In the recent episode they featured Idgy Vaughn's Saint Francis Fire. Now this ain't no Saint Elmos Fire. The song's based on a real story about 12 little girls who burned to death when their angel costumes caught fire during a school play on Christmas eve. What a cheerful way to start the workday.