12 good reasons to wake up early.

(From Philippine Daily Inquirer)

Byline: Gerrilyn Cadiz

ABS-CBN is giving you at least 12 reasons to get up at 5:30 a.m. and turn on the TV to catch its newly reformatted "Magandang Umaga Bayan": Tin-Tin Bersola, Edu Manzano, Erwin Tulfo, Ogie Diaz, Claudine Trillo, Katherine de Castro, Mon Ilagan, Ira Panganiban, Reema Chanco, Mike Cohen, Winnie Cordero and Bobby Yan.

Considered the neophyte in the group is Reema Chanco. She's done TV before, and you probably remember her from "Exchange" and "G-Force," and more recently in the latest MTV VJ Hunt, but this is the first time Reema is doing a live morning show.

"Every day's an adventure," Reema says of her "MUB" segment, where she gives the traffic report either from the ground or on board a chopper. "I now know where Munoz (market) is, and I have a keener understanding of how the flow of traffic works."

Reema admits she was nervous on her first day on the job. "Good thing they talked to me," she says, referring to the show's other hosts, "and didn't leave me to just talk on and on on my own."

Reema, who was discovered in a "small bar in Paranaque in 2001," says Tessie Tomas is the host she admires the most. "She's funny," she says of Teysi. "She's ...