Chapter 12 - The Near-Death December v3.0 (The Last Brainstorm of 2010)

December the 27th, year 2010. Few days to spare till a good year ends. New year, new life, and when it's new, starting over is basically the only task, apart from finishing ever-growing piles of useless homework, and getting used to having a new life takes a long time, even for a beast. The brainstorm come about when all Steve wanted to do is to have all the fun he wanted before school messed his life up. He wanted to have fun. Okay, but how? That's a very big question. Easy to answer, but hard to think of one.

'Yo!

Wat's up?'

'Nothing.'

Apart from staring and breathing, there really were nothing to do. You can tell by the conversations he and his friends were having. Blasting songs was one, blogging was another, visiting 'Facebook' was another. After he's done with all three of them, what else can he do? Exactly. 'Nothing'.

Chapter 11 - The Near-Death December v2.0

December was coming closer to an end, and there were signs of presence of fear of the awesome holidays ending faster than expected. The 'best' part of it were the fact that the following year happened to be the year he had to sit for a useless examination which happened to be a so called 'important' one.

Nothing to do, but to wait for the day he had to touch a book again. Holidays are meant to be relaxing, am I correct? That was what Steve thought. He'd save the presence of books for school days, and relax after finishing his so called 'important' pages of homework.

That day, Steve had urges to have fun before useless school came along and conquered his days of being at home. So he called his neighbour out for a cycle.

He blogged about what happened so far.

Chapter 10 - 'Idiots Never Have Good Things, Because They Break Everything Before Anyone Ever Knew They Had Any Of Them' v1.1

4.10 in the evening, left the building and headed for a friend's house to pick up some really good gifts. Reached there at about 5 in the evening. After few minutes, started the journey and reached the repair centre at about 5.30 in the evening. Left the repair centre at about 6 in the evening and reached home at about 6.30 in the evening.

Well, from then on, Steve was officially separated from his beloved smartphone for at least a week. That experience made him realize that no matter how careful and responsible he can be, accidents will always happen, and if it happens all the time, it's either time to be more careful and responsible, or it's because he's an idiot in taking care of his belongings.

Chapter 9 - 'Idiots Never Have Good Things, Because They Break Everything Before Anyone Ever Knew They Had Any Of Them'

Yes, the title says it all. All Steve could ever wished for are gadgets in his life, and of all gadgets, he had to drop the smartphone and crack the glass. So then, he followed Edward to the university, since it's near the repair centre.

5.29 in the morning. He was awaken by his mother, SilverMoon. It was a helpful move, because even if his alarm clock would've bugged him at 5.30 in the morning, he would've woken up, in his dreams. He bathed in heated water, and after a few steps to the sink, the cool air cooled it down and shivered him to death.

7 in the morning. Left the house. Reached there, and smelled the fresh scent of cow dung around the lake.

About 9 in the morning. Visited Edward's so called 'office'. Not bad actually. Smaller, but cooler than expected. 4 stolen white boards, 1 vandalized glass, and all happened to be written on with erasable white board markers. In that room, there happened to be an aluminium cased Apple branded laptop, a pink Vaio, and a black Dell. All were brought from home by few people, including Edward. Those were just laptops. There was a Dell branded desktop sitting in that room. Not bad for a workstation.

About 11 in the morning. Went to a lab filled with large and beastly Apple desktops running on 3.06GHZ Core 2 Duo processors. In basic english, that's good.

1:31 in the afternoon. Learnt new words from a book he had to suffer searching for definitions on the net every stop he makes, and every stop happened to be every few sentences. Stopped reading and blogged about what happened so far on those beastly iMacs, and did a grammar check on his hardly-known, hardy, bashed up, plastic beast at home.

Chapter 8 - The Near-Death December

Yes, December is unfortunately coming to and end, which means the start of school begins in a few weeks. So much for keeping long hair when you're forced to keep it short once school conquer the holidays. Makes you ask yourself, 'why for goodness' sake has your hairstyle got to do with education?'

So during these few weeks at home, Steve did nothing. He was thinking of exercising during the holidays, but when the holidays came, the laziness spoiled every inspiration he had.

Nothing much happened during the one and a half months, except his beloved smartphone slipping off his hands and ended up landing on a hard table in a restaurant, hurting it's screen, which was then broken, and was in extreme need for a repair, or else the whole handset would've been plain useless.

Holidays, better do what you got to do before you run out of them and crave for more.