My Dream House: Call Center Academy Assignment

// February 21st, 2007

I’d just like to share my very superficial but pretending to be cheesy assignment.

Have you heard of the song Paraiso by “The Smokey Mountain”? I love that song so much not just because it sounds so heart-wrenching. The song has become one of my favorites because of this part:

I live in a land called paraiso
In a house made of cardboard floors and walls
I learned to be free in paraiso
Free to claim anything I see
Matching rags for my clothes
Plastic bags for the colds

Paraiso touches my heart. A LOT. And if you’d ask me what my dream house would be, I might answer you with, “I could not ask for more.” I already live in a house where I don’t have to worry when will the cardboard floors and walls get torn by a typhoon or more heart-breakingly, get demolished by the owners of the land where my shack squats on.

But of course, that’s ideally speaking. In reality, I’m feeling more my still being a parasite in my parents’ house. And I don’t want to live with my parents forever.

So much of that charitable mode, here is my real dream house. If I have enough funds I’d really appreciate a house in a remote location but not too remote I won’t be able to find a decent Internet connection. I’d like some peace and quiet and lots of unpolluted environment sights. And a house in the province will definitely grant me that. Angeles city is so un-province-like. Need I say more?

A two-storey house used to enthrall me. But when my father said he hated our old house, which has a second floor because our family rarely gets to have some “together moments”, I can’t help but agree. So I’ve struck out the two-storey requirement. Not because I think having a second floor will keep us apart. But mainly because I want my father’s preference met. 

It will be lovely if the house will have about five to six rooms since I want my family, relatives and friends to come over and sleep over every now and then. The master’s bedroom will have a king sized bed, no, make that a double king sized bed if there’s any. Oh, I can get that custom built, right? I need my space so much even in bed. This bed I’m talking about is a bed that I’m about to share with my future husband.

The presence of three or four bathrooms is also a non-negotiable. I indulge in long, long baths that make even my soul feel cleansed after bathing. And having too pesky brothers and a mom who can’t control her bladder who always schedule their meetings with the President during my bath time has traumatized me enough that I promised myself to get my house not less than three bathrooms if I get the chance to.

I’m just halfway my description of my dream house and can you tell that the Paraiso stint is just an irrelevant attention bait?

I have been operating a home business for quite some time and I want my house to complement my career by having a garden office. It would be mesmerizing to have a garden office overlooking a natural lake, don’t you think?

A garage is not one of my favorite parts of a house so if I can, I don’t want to include a garage in my dream house’s layout. I find garages unsightly and I don’t need a car since I don’t travel a lot. But for emergency purposes, fine, a small garage will do.

I’m also particular with interiors. I’m flamboyant with a lot of stuff but I enjoy minimalism when it comes to a home’s design and interiors because unfortunately, I find no fun in cleaning. And when you don’t have too many clutters, er, interiors at home, consequentially, there’s not much to clean, right? I so worship the proponents of Zen.

To sum it all up, sure I want a relatively huge house with the same old stuff that a somewhat well-off person would want in his or her house. But there’s one thing that I’ll have an iron hand on, I want to share it with a person that will make it not worthy of just being called a dream house, I want it to turn into my dream home. Cheesy and cliché’-ish but true. Sure dreaming of a fully-furnished house will all the space in the world is a lot of fun. But it becomes especially more rewarding if I can also have all the peace and loving, right?