5. Your roommate leaves you with restless nights.
You wish the day would end in a comfortable sleep, with you or roommate snoring or not. But your roommate schedules his or her chat with the family at bed time, or can’t modulate voice during a phone conversation or prefers to sleep with lights on. You could only wish a serene surrounding by 11pm, but your housemate just arrived with tales to share, so you can expect a delayed slumber and a grumpy day at work the next day.

6. Your roommate is fond of collecting someone else’s ‘trash’
Apparently, trash is relative, depending on who you ask. Some roommates gather whatever they can salvage from the neighborhood dump: discarded books, computer keyboards, used pairs of shoes or anything that can be part of the next batch of balikbayan box. Such habit made to more difficult to move around your already cramped room.

There are more other nasty experiences overseas Filipino workers who are forced to settled in such shared apartments or shared rooms to save costs and squeeze their monthly incomes. But while such occurence are unpleasant, they also teach us valuable lessons about humility and contentment, the virtue of patience, and the motivation to strive further all in the name of success.

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