The mess that I call Home

Here are pics of the clutter that I live in.

1. This is what the ground floor looks like from the front door. To the left are the couches and to the right is the staircase. The dining area is in the back. The TV you see has committed suicide, and the sounds system is on life support.

2. This is what the living room looks like when I am lying down on the couch. I sleep here during the day because it's too fucking hot to sleep in my room during the summer. The electric fan that you see makes a nice humming sound that's hypnotic. The books under the coffee table haven't been read in years, and there are some gay porn flicks in the CD shelves.

3. These are our two couches. The one on the right is where I sleep. The one on the left needs to be re-upholstered, and it's the couch where my cousin shot porno pics of him and some guy he picked up from a chat room.

4. This is our dining area. My cousin, my Aunt and I all have different work schedules, so we hardly ever get to eat together. None of us drink alcohol at home, so the wine bottles you see at the top of the pic haven't been touched in years.

5. This is our cockroach-infested kitchen. Every so often either my Aunt or my cousin bombards the cupboards under the sink with Baygon, and all the roaches fly out and then die on the floor, leaving scores of dead cockroaches on the floor. I don't trust any of our cooking utensils because late at night roaches crawl all over them, hence the reason why I hardly eat at home.

6. This is our laundry area, which I haven't used in years since I don't have time to wash my own clothes anymore. It is also our cooking area, which is weird because it's right next to our bathroom -- another reason I don't eat at home.

7. These are our pet red ants feeding on our garbage. There are so many red ants everywhere that I think I've grown immune to them. At one point there were a lot of red ants living in my towel, and every time I took a bath I had to suffer their bites when I wiped myself off.

8. Our toilet -- the cleanest part of our house. Hehe. We never run out of water, thank God.

9. These are the stairs going to the bedrooms. At the top of the stairs is my laundry basket. At point I had a month's worth of clothes in there. Now I have my laundry done at least once every 2 weeks.

10. At the top of the stairs we have a laundry line, and that's where my cousin keeps most of his clothes. Every now and then the clothes line breaks from the weight of the clothes, and all his stuff ends up on the stairs. When I come home and take off my pants I leave them on the handrails.

11. The first bedroom upstairs is my Aunt's, and outside her room is a bookcase with lots of religious stuff. There are also souvenirs from all the places she's visited. The clock you see is advanced by an hour but no one bothers to fix the time.

12. This is what my Aunt's room looks like from the door. She has shelves with her toiletries and some pictures, some suitcases on the left, and a TV on the right.

13. I sometimes sleep in my aunt's room during the day when she's not there. This is what it looks like when I am lying in bed. As you can see the electric fan is at the foot of the bed next to the TV, and at the height of the movie "The Ring" craze, I couldn't sleep because I kept imagining that the breeze from the electric fan was Sadako's hair coming out of the TV.

14. Last but not least, here is the messiest part of the house -- my room. To be fair, the mess is only half mine. My cousin is just as messy. The mess to the left of the computer is his, the mess to the right is mine. This room is filled with the most dust because the window faces C5. This room is the hottest during the summer because it faces the sun.

15. This is what my room looks like when I am lying down. I sleep in the bottom bunk, and the top bunk is where I put some clothes and other stuff. None of the clothes in the cabinets are mine. The arm you see is Kuya Benjie's -- he's my cousin. He has his own bed.

Well. That's about it. Kuya Benjie and I finally cleaned our room over the weekend, but I'm guessing the cleanliness will last until next week. I will post pics of our place in Lucena the next time I go there.