My name is Guilherme and I'm a normal Portuguese 14 year old living in a house with three cats, one 20gb Xbox 360 and one white 40gb PS3. I enjoy listening to music. My favourite bands include System of a Down, Green Day, Muse, Arctic Monkeys, Pearl Jam and Hawthorne Heights.

• 27Sep 08

  "Maddie, where are you"? Seem strange, anyone?

  So I just finished watching the Halo 3 teaser and I'm very curious. Especially about a frase after the 30th second when frases like "yellow means yield" and "expect delays" are popping on and off the screen really fast. It says "Maddie, where are you?". Now for the Americans who are unaware, Maddie was a girl who was supposedly kidnapped. She was English, 3 years old, and was on holidays with her family in the Algarve. The parents claimed that she was taken while she and her brothers were in the hotel room while the parents went out for dinner.

  Now, here is where the story starts sounding strange. Maddie was in her room with her 2 younger twin brothers but only her was sleeping, no forensic evidence could show that anyone except Maddie's family had been in the room, Maddie's blood was found on the walls using ultra-violet rays, her blood was also found in the trunk of her parents' rental car, and the list of strange (circumstancial) evidence that point Maddie's parents to her dissapearence.

  Going back to the Halo 3 Teaser, it seems strange ( and a tad distasteful), that they should have included that frase in the teaser.

  Anyways, what are your opinions on the teaser?(which can be seen at bungie.net)

  • Posted Sep 27, 2008 12:16 pm PT
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• 20Sep 08

  "What is thy biding, Master?"

  Games:

  Well, long time no blog! I've been busy with the start of my new school(which rocks by the way) and my PS3. Haha, yeah I've kinda neglected my 360 but I'll get back to it when gears 2 comes out. I bought Uncharted for 30 bucks and I really enjoyed it. Yesterday, I bought Force Unleashed and I finished it a while ago. I was very pleased. The combat was fun and varied, the story was excellent(I ended with the evil ending), the characters were cool.

  The only problem I had with it was the inconsistenies of the difficulty. Sometimes Sith Lord was easy, other times, Apprentice was really hard, then Sith Warrior felt just right most of the time so I went with that.

  School: I left the American School of Lisbon and went to a public Portuguese high school. I'm having a blast so far. The people are nice, the teachers arent boring, and my schedule is much shorter. Even better, there's no strict dress code. I can listen to music in the halls and play my DS during breaks. Oh and heres an interesting story about my first English class.

  The class is for 10th grade but it's not 10th grade by American standards. By USA standards it would be in between 3rd and 4rth grade. Proof? To introduce ourselves we played the "name game". We said our name and then we described ourselves using an adjective that started with the same letter our name did. *sigh* I went along with it. "Hi, my name is Guilherme. I am great." Then its my friend Miguel's turn and he can't think of one. I tell him to use mesmerizing which was the first adjective beginning with an "m" that I could remember. Then I explained what it meant and he said it. Then the teacher was like "Mesmerized? What is that?" And then I had to explain it to her. And then she didn't believe it was real. Then we searched it on a website and found the definition. She was like "oh well...ah....mmm...okay sit down, young man". And then the whole class started laughing. I kinda felt bad for the teacher but she has a college degree so I thought she knew what mesmerized meant.

  • Posted Sep 20, 2008 3:33 pm PT
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• 25Aug 08

  Eve? Wall-E.

  I'm leaving the Phillipines tommorow morning and I'm sad. It's such a nice place. It has Starbucks, nice people who say hello instead of "get outta my way", you can get massaged for 15 dollars, and you can grab 4 dollars and spend a great afternoon at an arcade. *sigh* I know all good things must come to an end, but 3 weeks felt like a short time. Still I'll take with me some great memories like

  • the first Playstation 3 game I played(and finished:Ratchet and Clank),
  • my first time at Hooters(although the Hooters concept in Asia feels a bit weird because the girls are pretty shy and don't have *surprise* "hooters")
  • and finally- beating my dad at pool

  Yes it's been a fun time, but now I have a 14 flight to Amsterdam followed by a 3 hour flight to Lisbon. I guess I'll be spending a lot of time with my DS.

  P.S. Is it me or is Wall-E the most beautiful animated movie ever? It's amazing how the guys at Pixar show so well that when love is true, words become unnecessary and actions become the most important thing in the world.

  • Posted Aug 25, 2008 9:12 am PT
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