In Continuum.

"So this is my house, it's a little dark now, let me turn on the lights. I'm sorry about the mirrors in the lift, they are a little creepy, so you really need to close your eyes for the duration of ten floors next time you take it yourself, okay? Anyway, so here is my house, and I think those little sculptures over there look like two naked versions of my dad fighting, for some reason. And yes, this is my simple simple house, and could you grab that remote control over there on the shoe cabinet? Thanks, let me turn on the heater with this thing. It's supposed to circulate around the house in a few moments, so I suppose it's better to keep those jackets on for now. Oh, just toss your shoes into the cabinet, that's fine. Do you want the yellow slippers or the... oh wait, we have the green ones. I think you can take the green ones while I get the black ones, and then the rest goes back into the cabinet like that. The light switches are over there on the wall behind you, yes press the third button. Better? Let there be some light, it can get quite dark here even in the late afternoons. No, no one is at home now, my dad is down in the South, he won't be back for a couple of days. There restaurants and stuff like that downstairs if you get hungry at night, I think they open till pretty late most of the time. But we'll take a walk around the neighborhood later on, okay? Let me show you around the house for a while. 

So this is the dining room, we have that cool rotating light above our heads. It kinda looks like a clock, though I told the designer that it'd be cooler to be a real clock mounted up there on the ceiling. It turns with a control, well, somewhere, I'd find it later. My dad totally cannot be trusted to run this house on his whole. The last time I came here, he had a bicycle parked in the dining room and a bunch of boxes stacked on top of each other in the kitchen. Seriously, he messes everything up while trying to clean everything up. Anyway, so here's the kitchen, no doors, just the way you like it. You can pull this little door here up but, it is opened most of the time. But that other door over there, don't open it because my mom doesn't like it, something to do with fengshui, I don't know why really. So yes, we have those pretty set of knives over there, the kind that you like. The bowls and plates are here, the utensils are here in this drawer next to it, and it closes without a sound! Everything here is just the way you like it, though we don't really have an island here. Sorry, I wasn't involved in the designing process and stuff like that, so. Everything is a little small here though, but I do like how it becomes even more open when you push this wall out. Yeah, the television spins out all the way from the living room to the kitchen. The sound is from the wheel, something is wrong, we know. 

So this is the bathroom I told you about the other time, yeah I can see that you like it already. We have the floor, as you can see, they really look like polished granite rocks, no? Then the walls are all filled with tiny little pebbles like I told you about. I know you dont like this giant piece of mirror in front of you here, but it really isn't very bad when you get into the shower. I prefer this kind of shower really, with the glass door and stuff like that closing up. Here's the shower, and don't turn it too far to the left because it's already scorching as it is. There's the shampoo, the body lotion there, the soap if you prefer the soap, and stuff like that here. And the towels are behind the mirror, so just grab it from there, and you also have a smaller towel for your hair if you need it. Oh, here's the control panel for the heater in the bathroom, and you need to turn it on before you go to bathe, so when you come out of the bath it's not going to be too cold in winter, you know? The other buttons are for drying the air and stuff like that, but I don't think you'd need it in the winter now anyway. Oh, and the toilet seat here is a little cold, because it doesn't have a heater. The other one has, so this one might be a little chilly to the butt. So be careful yeah?

OK, so here is the bedroom that I sleep in when I come back here. It is supposed to be my bedroom, but it looks more like a guest room in a hotel, I know. The only thing that makes this room my room, is probably the baby picture of me on the shelf over there. OK, so I love this room, I call it the time capsule. You pull the curtain down, turn the lights off, close this door behind us, and you pretty much lose track of time completely. Unless someone comes into the room, you cannot wake up at all - how beautiful is that! Anyway, so the room is pretty empty and stuff like that, so nothing interesting for the most part. But if I decide to move back to Taiwan, this is probably going to be my room. I'm not going to complain though, but I'm probably going to want to move this bed out and leave the other bed. I like the softness of the bed, it is firm enough for me and stuff like that. The closet over there may scare you a bit, because it is huge and you can hide a person inside, or a monster. But just close the door and you should be fine, so don't worry about it. 

The room next to my bedroom is my dad's work room, this is where he yells into the phone to do business and attempts to type out document on his laptop, which he never turns off. Here's the thing, he thinks that it takes way too long to start up his computer, and he's too lazy to wait. So he hasn't turned it off, probably ever since he bought the computer - imagine that. The other thing is that, I think this is a lovely house, and I love it. But the problem is that it doesn't really have a view to begin with, because we have a hospital across the junction over there on the other side of the house. On this side, we have that ugly chimney over there from a factory, pouring smoke out every minute of the day, every day of the week. And because this building is much taller than all the other buildings around, you get to see all their rooftops, and people tend to treat their rooftops as a rubbish dump, you see, so things are pretty ugly up there for the most part. That is also why this curtain stays closed all the time, the view is just not very pretty. Though, if the weather is good enough, you can see Taipei 101 all the way in the distance, right next to that red building over there. See it? That's it, and yeah it's small. 

OK, so this is my parents' room, very simple and elegant like every other part of the house. I think my house looks like a giant presidential suite in a hotel, perhaps just a little more attention to detail. I mean, there is nothing on the tea table in the living room, and we really have just two sets of couches. But then the designer really has that minimalist view on things, and I love how he uses very elemental materials on the furniture as well as the designs. Like this little lamp over here behind the door, he actually made this lamp himself. The doors in front of the television here, they close without any sounds as well. So you can close the door like that and not wake anybody. Behind here is the closet, the little mirror here you can check yourself out with, then the bathroom here is a little different from the one in front. We have a jacuzzi here! The button doesn't work at times, but the jets of water punching your body from every direction is pretty damn awesome. But you don't have to use it every night, we have the shower head next to it if you want. Oh, the toilet bowl, it is heated all the time, so it won't be very cold if you sit down to do your number two. And you can press this button here to wash you butt with water, but it feels a little weird.

So if you want to get the laundry done, there is a laundry shop across the road if you don't want to wash yourself, and we can go to the little shopping mart down the street to buy groceries and all that. Food is going to be pretty convenient, because we have everything within two hundred meters, pretty much. Or we could walk to the hospital, they actually have surprisingly good food. But the canteen is pretty hard to get to, and you kind of get lost amidst a whole bunch of scanning rooms and stuff like that. It's a little creepy because sometimes you don't see people down these long halls at all. So, a hospital, long halls, it can get pretty creepy. So, my parents won't be back for some time, and transport is pretty convenient as well. The bus takes about twenty to half an hour to get to Taipei from here, and it is just a short walk to the bus stop. So we could go there and come back pretty quick if we want to, and everything just works around here. Oh, there is a Starbucks underneath my house, and a Hugo Boss shop as well - I don't know why either, but I'm sure you like it. Anyway, so that is a guide through my house for now, just pretend that this your ow home, okay? Make yourself comfortable now, relax, and then we'd go have dinner. How does that sound? Good? I think so too. I really do think so.