Sorry peoples..... for long absence..... I have returned!

psychological condition: Silent
audio anti-depressant:Symphony no.40 by Mozart (sorry, I've become obsessed with it)

Ok, I don't know if you people have heard, but I will take part in a silent-a-thon to help enslaved women in Burma. On Tuesday I have to stay silent for a whole day (unless a teacher addresses me directly) and if I speak I have to pay a 20 cent fine per word. Many people are sponsoring me (thankyou peoples!) and so far I have raised 23 dollars - in one afternoon! If Overlord reads this, please don't donate something evil like 5 cents.... I won't accept it! Thankyou all those others who sponsored me already, and especially for those who have also paid, because then I won't have to go running around after you to collect the money (I know... laziness!) If everyone who takes part raises 50 dollars, then we will have raised over $1500 to help these poor enslaved women. Well done all you people who take part.... together we will make a better world!

Hehe... I hope I can do it, but I know I've been silent for 5 hours before, so it shouldn't challenge me too much. However, if anyone tickles/pokes/does anything to make me laugh, then you unfair people deserve to die!

I saw Troy yesterday, and (*spoiler.... don't read this if you don't want to know what happens*) MENELAOS DIES! WHAT THE HELL????? HE CAN'T DIE! How can they change the story so dramatically????

Ok, here's both versions:

Original version: Paris accepts Helen as a gift from Aphrodite for giving Aphrodite the golden apple. Helen, who has already married Menelaos, becomes enchanted by Aphrodite and she goes with Paris to Troy. Outraged, Menelaos summons all the armies of Greece to his aid to rescue his wife. After 9 and a bit years, Paris and Menelaos fight in single combat to decide the end of the war, and Paris loses but Aphrodite protects him and removes him from the battlefield just before he would get killed. Menelaos declares victory, but a Trojan starts the fighting again. After a while, the Greeks build a wooden horse and make it look like they have left it as a gift. Inside the horse, the Greeks wait for the Trojans to take the horse into the city. Then, in the middle of the night, the Greeks climb out of the horse and attack the city. Defeated, Troy burns and Helen returns to Menelaos, and they return home.
(ok..... I admit, I MAJORLY simplified the story....)

Movie version: Paris and Hektor go to Sparta to make peace with them. Helen falls in love with Paris and returns to Troy with him. Menelaos and his brother Agamemnon summon an army of 1000 ships, and they arrive in Troy about a day after Helen and Paris got there (as if you could summon an army in that time!). About two days (as apposed to 9 and a bit years) later, Paris and Menelaos fight and Paris realises he will lose and runs off to his brother Hektor. Hektor then kills Menelaos (you see the problem with this plot..... how can Menelaos rescue Helen if he dies????) and the Greeks and the Trojans start fighting again. Meanwhile, Briseis, the priestess of Apollo is given to Achilles (to 'amuse him') but the taken from him a day later by Agamemnon. Achilles refuses to fight unless she is returned to him. She is returned and they fall in love. Briseis then returns to Troy with her uncle Priam. When the Greeks make the Trojan horse, they wreck havoc in Troy, but BRISEIS KILLS AGAMEMNON! (in the proper version, he gets killed by his wife when he returns home). The Trojans, including Helen and Paris, flee through a secret passage and escape from the burning city of Troy, and thereit ends. Helen does not return to the Greeks and Paris does not get killed.

You see how the plot line has been MAJORLY altered???????

And I just have to say one more thing.... timeo Danaos et dona ferentis! I'll leave that for some smart latin scholar to translate... hehe, no. I won't torture you so. It means 'I fear Greeks when they bear gifts', more usually translated as 'Beware of Greeks
bearing gifts'. (Sorry Leia!)

Ok.... should go now.

Namaarie!

-Berio i Hídh-