Chapter 1
This is how it happened on that Friday night.
Rene is a master’s student at Uppsala University, Sweden and this is his first semester. His major is Human-Computer Interaction.
You know, Uppsala University is the oldest university in the whole Nordic region, full of stories and myths, history and reputation.
For every international master’s student who enrols at Uppsala University, the university will arrange a corridor room for them.
Rene lives in a corridor with four other students: Marx Colwell, Sejin Kim, Sandra Moberg, and Shinichi Ozaki.
That night, Rene is writing his assignment, which is supposed to be handed in at 12:00 pm.
Unfortunately, that is a Friday night, which also means that there usually is a party in a student corridor.
I would like to describe that student corridor a bit: it is a big two-floor house. On the first floor, there is a big kitchen room and a big meeting room. On the second floor, there are their bedrooms.
The party is usually held on the first floor and the noise will always torture everyone on the second floor.
No one in this corridor loves to see a party held in the corridor except Marx Colwell, the UK guy.
As he says in the WhatsApp group, he is going to invite some people to have a party tonight.
Rene says a big NO in his heart and then does nothing but goes back to his assignment because there are only 6 hours left before the deadline and he only types two paragraphs.
At around 7 o’clock, Rene hears the noises of the crowd. No doubt it is from Marx and his party guys.
The noises became louder and louder and louder. At some moments, Rene swears that he must move out at the end of this semester.
Simultaneously, Rene is struggling with the theory of ontology and epistemology regarding the HCI research methods.
Rene sits on his chair and starts to curse the teacher who made this boring and difficult assignment; he curses Marx, that male bitch, for holding this annoying party; he also curses the bad weather in Sweden for making him feel so disappointed.
He had no idea that the situation he curses now would be so cherished when looking back, and what is going to happen to him later on that night in this corridor is just the beginning of many horrible things that came along.
