The House ....

Usually, when I'm tired, I just go home, prop myself on a chair and turn on the tv, have something cold to drink near me and just waste my time away. I like going home to a house that's clean and cozy... I like it when I open up the door, I see the floor clean and the house smells sweet. This kind of house makes me want to go home always and makes me want to go lanay the whole day.

Now, a friend is moving in with us and the idea is cool... Wow! So there's going to be four people, sharing the whole house. Time to look for a bigger crib. But here comes the dilemma, finding the right house.

When I got here (to Cebu) a couple of years ago, me and two other friends actually had a hard time looking for a house to rent. You might think, why a house and why not just take a room ... Well, we do not want to share the toilet and bath. We want to "own" the place, make it personalized. We finally found our first "right" house and lived there for 6 months. We liked the house because it is just a ride away from where we work and the water supply is okay. Public utility jeepneys goes through our place 24 hours. Unfortunately, the place comes with a "bonus", four ghosts.... all of them elementals, one big hairy guy with a protruding belly and a smell that can turn your stomach upside down, a "white" couple and a fleeting wall shadow. All in one house... sometimes they will do their own apparitions alternately. Samok kaau... Saun!

We decided to move out. Don't get me wrong. We moved out not because of the ghosts but because we were starting to accumulate things and the house is started to drip.. Hmmm, drip is actually an understatement.. The house started to develop its own waterfalls inside. So everytime it will rain, torrents of water will fall from the ceiling and here I am, drenched and raving mad because the owner of the house is not doing anything to resolve the problem. I can live with ghosts, but water pouring down on you while you are sleeping is big deal. Ok! Time to look for another house.

We found this house with 2 bedrooms just several meters away from our first one. I liked the house personally because the floor is tiled and so easy to clean, nya nay gate. The sink is okay and we can actually cook because there are several windows (not like the first one that the only window existing was the bedroom window). And I also liked the rooms because they are big enough for 3 people. The bathroom is big too. We also find the rent reasonable so we decided to have the house. And the most important thing is, the house does not have its own waterfalls... Taw-an sad sya na house but manageable because it was just an earthbound spirit of a 10-13 year old girl. Ok, enough with the ghosts! We had the house exorcised and she disappeared and the house felt lighter. It's like the house is breathing freely again...

And again, since we're going to have a new housemate, we will need a bigger house this time, one with 3 bedrooms on it. Honestly, I still need to help them find a house (starting to feel bad that I cannot help them look for a house). They already went around looking for one (without me since I cannot go with them because I am on the day shift and my friends work at night), found more than a couple but we still have to find the right one.

It's going to be a new experience... A new house and a new housemate... Hmmm... Cool. I'm cool with a new housemate (right, Cole?) but I'm not sure with the new house. I think I'll need incense again.