BBBBBBOOOOOOOOOk review.

Hey peeples! Today I'm writing about a book I recently read called Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes. I really liked this book for two reasons: it had an excellent storyline and was well-written, and it had a lot to do with swimming, my favorite sport. The story was about this eighteen year old boy, Eric, and his best friend Sarah Byrnes. Originally they became friends as both outcasts of society, due to Eric's immense fat and Sarah's extreme burn scars on her face. As Eric becomes more and more fit due to his intense swimming ( 100 100's on 1:02! OMG!!!!) he worries that Sarah and he will drift apart due to his loss of fat. Sarah's father is discovered to be an extremely cruel child abuser and finally is apprehended through the teamwork of Sarah, Eric, and their teacher, Mrs. Lemry.

In total, I would give this book 4 1/2 stars, because it was really good, but it could have been a little longer.

envirobots: state competition is coming up!

Hey everybody!

You probably know that I am part of a Lego robotics team. FOr the people who don't know what FLL is, I will explain right now.

FLL, or First Lego League, is a team competition where teams program a LEGO robot to do theme related tasks as well as completing a theme related research project. This year's theme is biomedical engineering, so the tasks include getting a syringe, fixing and putting a cast on a bone, and putting a pacemaker in a heart. My team, the Envirobots, did our research project on allergies. IN the research project, teams have to come up with a unique solution to a real life problem. Our team created a solution for allergies. It involved nanotechnology, and we really impressed the judges at the regional competition ( we won first place for research)

OUr robot, Envyro, is very temperamental. We programmed him to work perfectly, then at competitions, he started acting up. Unfortunately, I wasn't at the regional competition, even though I was there at qualifiers, since I was at Disneyland with my school. I heard from my parents that the robot froze completely!

Luckily even though I was not there at the regional our team managed to qualify for the state level. Wish us luck! (cross your fingers that envyro will work!)

our first place trophy for research:D

I'm BBBBBBBBBAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACK!

Hey everybody, I am back! Sorry for not bloggin for some time! So a lot of things happened this weekend, namely the Raiders losing to the cardinals. I was crushed. Go to ESPN and find out why. HMPH! The Raiders always do this to me! Another thing that happened is that I went to see the De Young art exhibition in San Francisco from the Musee d'Orsay in Paris. The artwork collection was called Van Gogh, Gauguin, Cezanne and Beyond....very cool title. Anyway, a lot of the artwork started out as the impressionists, such as Van Gogh and Monet. However, as the time periods progresses, the artwork gradually returned to realism and then new techniques such as pointillism( make a painting out of dots......lol) and divisionism. All of the art was amazing and I was really impressed. This weekend, our LEGO team had a super productive meeting, so I am happy. We managed to program our robot to do three tasks already!! Yay!

For the booklist thang,I found a new cool book, called Millions by Frank Cottrell Boyce. It was about this young boy who is addicted to saints (ikr) and how somehow a bag of money lands at his feet and the robbers who lost it want it back but he needs to spend it before it all become worthless. Whew! Run on sentences rule!!

Today in swimming it was someone's birthday, and we got cookies! I am still happy about this:D

Laters!

Plooday!

Hey everybody, I am sad. Today in our cross country meet, I got HURT. You see, in the beginning of the race, its a mad clump of churning legs and craziness where runners pray not get run over. I got run over. Of course. What happened is that two of my friends, Ryan and Chirag got tripped, and I was avoiding them when some clown from Cupertino stomped on my foot. I was in pain, but I still did really well, I got 13th and 7:51. It was a 1.3 mile race, so my average mile speed was about 6:03.

Yesterday, I think I forgot to tell you this, but we finally got our planbners. The company was a total fail and were super late AT FIRST. Then , when the planners came, they had the Cupertino middle handbook inside, and then they reprinted them, but had the same error. (ikr) Then they finally came, and I was expecting something cool and fun like last year, with fun facts and stickers and stuff, but this years' planner has just study tips and no stickers! NO!!!

Another thing is that in Chamber Orchestra today, I realized that for our Espana Cani piece which we are playing with the band, we will only have ONE rehearsal with them. I am preeeeeetty apprehensive about this.....I mean, it is going to be the finale of the Booster concert and all ,so it does have to be pretty good...Speaking of which, the Booster Concert is on October 6 at the Lawson Event Center! Please donate to the Music Program! Every Dollar Counts! The time is now!....(ok now I'm getting desperate)

Mokay everybody I have run out of things to write..

Laters!

Pasta

The title of today's post has nothing whatsoever to do with the content of this post. Nope. Zero. Isn't that funny!(haha) I am feeling happy about school. I got my math test from my HARD math teacher yesterday, and it turns out that I aced it. Today, I got like ten papers back in LA, and I aced all of them. I got like a 98!!YAHOO! I also did really well on some other things. Another cool thing in school is that my friends and I started a tournament series in our lunch/brunch soccer games. Today, our team won, 5-3. Yay!

Mr Lewis started talking about the Disneyland trip yesterday in Orchestra. I am SO excited! The trip starts with a 8-hour drive (DS download play!) Then we spend the whole next day in Disneyland roaming around with our friends enjoying complete freedom. Wow! The next day, we have a clinic where we get to play from the actual movie scores. Then that evening, we get to go to Medieval Times. Google it and then you can see what it is. I am REALLY looking forward to this trip!!!!!

kk l8rs!

Laters!

Twoday

Hey everybody! THE RAIDERS WON!!!! YAHOO! I went to the game with my family, originally a little worried due to the fact that my sister and mom are not exactly what you call football freaks. But, they are Raiders fans, and that should be enough. When we got to the game, the fans were crazy throughout the whole game. In fact, the odd Rams fans here and there had to be moved around so that the fans around the,m would not generate enough wrath to get nasty. The game was pretty cool, though. Jason Campbell had a bad first half, but when the Raiders put in Gradkowski, the sun seemed to shine just a bit brighter, and the Raiders scored a touchdown. They finally own by doing three kneels in a row and wasting the last 2 minutes. However dumb this strategy seems, the Raiders beat the Rams, 16-14, and now are 1-1. Yay!

When we came back from the game though, I had to do an online math class (don't laugh!) which was okay. I mean, it was the first class of a six month session, so it was a little choppy with the DimDim conference tool and the conference phone call. But the math was fun, and I was able to get all the problems at the session done the fastest and all were right.

yester

hey peeples! Sorry I couldn't post yesterday, I was watching Back to the Future three and did NOT want to get up. So yesterday, I spent the day shadowing at Saint Francis. My shadow host, Daniel, was really cool, so I had fun throughout the day. It turns out that at St Francis they have block schedule, so it was periods 1,3,5,and 7 on Friday. The campus is really big, and, the facilities were great. I also had a lot of fun in the classes, since in my shadow's geometry class, I was forced to take a quiz....Another thing that was really great about this school is that the cafeteria is AWESOME. The cookies are just as amazing as everyone says, and they have pasta, pizza, and soup/sandwich bars. I really liked this school, and plus, I met some of the people I knew in Challenger. It was a nice surprise.....

Okay then, sorry to cut this post short.

Laters!

Shadows

This post's title sounds kind of mysterious, doesn't it? Good. Mwahahahah! Just kidding. In fact the only reason I made the title of this post Shadows is that I am shadowing at Saint Francis High tomorrow, and I am kind of nervous. Shadowing is where you follow a certain student around all day, and that way you can truly experience what it is like at the school. St Francis, as you can probably tell, is a Catholic private school. In fact, you have to even take an entrance exam to get in: the HSPT. ( my mom has had me studying for this four months in advance) So I am a little nervous. Today, my mom made a cool dinner of ravioli with this fun sauce she made up. I would put the recipe on, but I kind of forgot. Speaking of recipes, one of my friends has a recipe related blog. Here's the link: www.taxibaxi.blogspot.com. I have also decided what three DS games the poll competition I mention yesterday will be: a. Mario 64 DS b. COD 4:MW DS c. Professor Layton and the Unwound Future. Well, pick the best one, and then I will know which one to pick to buy with my Gamestop gift cards.

Well, then, a bientot!!

Laters!

currents

Hey everybody, sorry I haven't been posting, but I have been kind of busy. Today I had a cross country race. In cross country, there are about 120 runners in each race ( races are 6th girls, 6th boys, 7th girls, so on) and people are all trampling each other in the start. Well today, I finished in twelfth. I seriously think I could have got like fifth if this idiot from Sunnyvale wasn't trying to block me the whole time. IT was REALLY annoying. Another thing that happend is that we have to make a radio play with a partner in Language Arts. My partner is really cool, so that's not a problem, but I had problems editing the file at home. First of all, I have GarageBand '08, and I had saved it on GarageBand '09, so it didn't work. then, I went to the Apple Store to try and convert the file(yes, I am a dedicated person), where I used their Macs. Unfortunately, the file got corrupted. At school however, I was able to rescue the file from the trash can. I did all that work, though , for nothing. I did not present that day(yesterday). I didn't present today either. Oh well, I guess it just mean extra editing time for me.

I am also conflicting about something. I need to pick a new game for my pro DS. could you help me out by answering my poll? I will put up the poll tomorrow..

Another new thing that has come up is on m Facebook, I have become addicted to MouseHunt, which is a totally supertastic cool game for cool kids. ( see how hopelessly addicted I am?). Please donate some SuperBrie Cheese to me if you are my friend on Facebook and in the real world and play Mousehunt. ( no, just kidding, you don't have to ) My weekend was really cool, since my dad got a BMW!!!! It's a Mojave Metallic 2011 535i sedan! Maybe my dad will let me post pics.

Okey dokey bye!

Laters!

a wunnerful birthday week

Everybody, this week has just been great. My birthday at school was great and everybody wished me happy birthday. My parents took me out to dinner at BJ"s, even though they didn't have to. My birthday party at Laser quest was SUPER fun, and i got many great presents. And to top it all off today, my dad got a new car-a BMW 535i in Mojave Metallic. I am really thankful to everybody who helped me enjoy my birthday as much as I did. I just want to say thanks.

Now, I want to talk about HOW THE RAIDERS LOST AND WERE CRUSHED BY THE TITANS! The score was 38-13, and the raider's offensive line hit a new all time low. I din't really get to watch, as i had to listen to it from the car radio and then watch it in snippets at my sister's birthday party ( they have TVS at Sky High, which is where she had her party) I am really disappointed in the Raiders today, but I am feeling good, because I get to go to a live Raiders game next weekend, a gift from my great parents. Isn't that aweysome!

kk pplz l8rs!

Another todayesterday

Today, I had a fun day. yay! I am free from twilight, so I can read Harry Potter without mentally kicking myself. Speaking of Harry Potter, you should watch the Deathly Hallows trailer...it's really exciting. I sooo want to go see it. Did I ever tell you guys about Mindstorms? I don't think so.....well, basically you program a LEGO robot to perform certain tasks. The tasks usually follow a theme, and there are large competitions with the robot, a project on research related to theme, and teamwork stuff. It's pretty dang fun.

So, another random topic! What should I make a poll on next? THe birthday one was pretty good, but I need a new one. How about.....who thinks the RAIDERS WILL WIN ON SUNDAY!!! They are playing the Titans, and they are probably going to be beaten out of their wits. But, WATCH THE GAME ANYWAY! However harsh this may sound, you must obey as it is an order. FROM ME!

Okay people laters....

todayesterday

Hey guys, sorry I have not been ale to post for some time. I am extremely happy for two reasons:a) ITS MY BIRTHDAY! and b) I finished Twilight( I am FREE!) . So I will publish the review today. Today my parents took me to BJ's ( thanks viewers)where I sorely underestimated the quantity of food. Our family barely even finished one pizza, but we polished off three pizzookies( the name speaks for itself). I also got a Facebook today, and I am super happy to have joined my online friend network. It's really cool. So, about Twilight.....it's not a good book. Nope. I was a little interested in the first few chapters, before Bella was in love with Edward, but after that, the whole thing went downhill. The climax was not even interesting, when Bella was hiding from the hunter. Unless you are hyper and need to sleep, this book is a definite no-no. I will publish the formal review tomorrow, so you can see.

Anyway, thanks for reading, and Happy Birthday to me!

Sawy

me is sawy but I can't post today, due to extreme overworkation by my parents.

Toodai

Sup homies! Yo readin' the blog of Rohan! My day was pretty average at school. In Orchestra, Mr. Lewis went off on two wide tangents, the first being about different modes of scale(Ionian, Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian, Mixolydian, and Locrian) and the second about his cool house paint job and all the awesome colors and shades of paint he used to 'help' his wife paint the house.

We did the mile today, and I epicly failed, with a 6:07. You probably know that I am a fast kid, so that time is kinda fail. Anyway, I had a cross country practice with Ms Walters after school. I don't like her. Not one bit. But I guess she must know what she's doing......

Okay, thanks to you viewers, I am probably going to have my birthday dinner at BJ's. But being a first time BJ-er, I don't know what to eat on the menu there. Could you help me out? I know this sounds a little Dora the Explorer ( NO i have NOT been watching it recently!) but please, I really need your help. Today was also my sisters' first swim practice. It was not fun for her, as she struggled through set after set. But she will get there....eventually.

OOOOKKKK, TTYLaters!

Windows Woot!

Hey everybody! I am blogging from Windows 7!!! woot! Don't you think 'woot' sounds a little owlish? Personally I can totally imagine an owl sitting in a tree going Woot! Woot! Speaking of owls, do you think that the Guardians of Ga'hoole movie will be good? I hope it will, since I want to go see it. The only problemo I have with it is that it does not seem to have any funny parts in it. Well....we'll see about how it goes.

So, today my dad installed Windows 7 on my computer, and the interface is so cool! It has awesome new settings and backgrounds. I tried a lot of things including playing Age of Empires 3 on it. If you have Age of Empires 3 at home, please join my online clan that I am going to form. It will be called...I don't know yet, but I will tell ya later.

My birthday is this week! Yayz! I have been looking forward to it for a whole year now! Please wish me a happy birthday by commenting on this post. (LOL)

OK pplz. lalalaters.......

Coolnessly cool today

Hey everybody, as you all know, I have not posted for three days. Sorry, I have just been really busy. Today ma famille et moi went to see Toy Story three. Even though it has been out for like two months, we still didn't bother to see it. We were blown away. It started with this funny and symbolic short film called Day and Night, which was pretty darn awesome, plus it was followed by one heck of a movie. To tell you the truth, I really wasn't expecting much, but the story was very enjoyable, funny and touching at the same time. If you haven't seen it yet, go see it tomorrow, since it's LABOR DAY! WAHOO"S FISH TACO! ( way cooler than woohoo right!)

My dad is going to install Windows & on my computer. I am SO excited. I have been hampered by Vista's pure low quality for ages, I am poised and ready for my much needed and required upgrade. I just hope I can convince my dad to get Windows 2010. I am a sucker for new stuff, as you can see. I am waiting for the iPhone 5 to come out, the PS4, and also, Windows 8 will be MINE! I am already REALLY bored of Twilight...so if you are kind enough, viewers, to let me drop out of this review and instead review the highly acclaimed Red Pyramid, I would be eternally grateful. So if you are feeling like you want to do a good deed today, please comment on this post and say YES ! I AM KIND AND I WILL LET YOU NOT READ TWILIGHT! Yay, if you do you are coolnessly cool and can yell WAHOO"S FISH TACO! I DID A GOOD DEED TODAY!

k peoples. Laters....

hey

Guys, I am going to have to post tomorrow, since I really cant post tonight.

OKay BYEEEEEEEEE!

Ooh!

Ooh! Hey guys, this is Rohan Choudhury, speaking live from his blog. LOLIPOPZ!(cooler version of lolz) So my day was pretty normal again. I had another French lesson today after the whole summer, ( did I mention that I speak some French)....Also my sister aced her swimmming eval, and got put into a group that swims an hour 45 mins a day. It's going to be hard, but I hope she does okay!
I have started to play a lot of soccer at school. It's really fun, except when like twenty pixies invade the game and threaten to tell Mr Bowman if we oust them from the game. I am pretty good, but my friends are a lot better, since a lot of them play soccer as an outside activity. Yesterday's game at lunch had like 30 pixies and was a mad rage to see who could kick the ball harder and further. Today was a more relaxed, fun 7 on 7. I liked today's game a LOT better.

BTW can you please comment on this post if you want me to review a certain book, since I have no idea really what you people want me to review. Twilight is going to take some more time, but I am only like 300 pages in and it is already pretty boring.

Alrighty then, this is Rohan Choudhury, signing off on tonight's post.

Tada!y

The title is my attempt at a pun. I think you can all see how that turned out. I just spent the evening working with my sis on swimming. She recently quit gymnastics, and is trying out swimming. AS you all know, I'm a hard core swimmer, and I decided I would be a cool bro and give her a little help. Due to my major coolness, she mastered her flipturns and her strokes look a lot better.

I want to talk about the booklist. A few of you guys at school have been asking that I review certain books, (e.g. Snakehead), and I really don't know what to do. So if you guys want moi to review un livre pour vous. then comment on this post. Tell your friends to comment too. I want this blog to become pretty popular among kids our age.

Some of you may have also noticed that my Gmail status today was Espana Cani! Well, that is the title of the new song we are playing in Chamber Orchestra. The super cool thing about this piece is that we will play it with the Advanced Band, so it will sound really cool. The only problem is that Chamber Orchestra is a lot more skilled, since we have violins, and most of our violinists have been playing for year. Anyway, we have a LOT harder parts. I mean a LOT harder. Talk to your friends about this, they will show you the sheet music. Compare the chamber parts with the advanced parts and you will see how much harder chamber is.

Anyway, thanks for all your support and followation!

buh-bye!

Yesterday

Don't you think it's funny that the 'tomorrow'post is followed by the yesterday post! Yeah, well...

Yesterday the most exciting class was probably Orchestra, as Mr. Lewis gave us two new pieces, Habanera from Carmen, and Espana Cani. Habanera is the most famous music from Carmen,( the opera!) and if you still don't know it, I will try to put the music on for you guys. Espana Cani is the classic Spanish paso music, and is pretty common. Again, I will try to put this one on.. Also yesterday in math we got this cool logic puzzle, called Saturday Night Date. Here is a link to it online. See if you can solve it! http://www.puzzles.com/projects/logicproblems/SaturdayNightDate.htm

You probably all know from my poll that my birthday is coming up. This year, I think I will just ask for cash, that way I can spend it any way I want, and not cause much hassle for people to go out and buy gift cards. Comment on this.....

Also I am planning to put out another poll to see what books people want me to read. If you like any of the books on the list, vote, and you could see me review it!!! (haha i sound like a commercial)

tomorrow

Hey everyone, I wont be able to post today, so I will post tomorrow morning.

Thanks guys!

thoughts

Hey everybody! most of you probably know that my sis has a blog--Rhea's Days.(rheasdays.blogspot.com). Its considerably more popular than mine. So why am I even talking about it? Well, I just wanted to comment on her style of blooging. (Haha, blooging) In my opinion, her blog is really funny, and every time I write something similar to hers, she throws a tantrum. For example:

"Hey, Rhea, look at my new widgets!"

"HEY! You copied my Fish widget!!!"

"No, I just like the widget, I did NOT copy you!"

"MOMMY! Rohan is copying my blog!"

See? What do you think I go through every day? Anyway, she made her blog before mine, and also started using Adsense before me, so everyone is trying to copy her with blogs, including a few of my friends.

You know, Rhea think I am copying her log right now, with this post, sice she had a post where she put some people's blog links...

OK, about the Twilight Review, this is turning really controversial. In my school, I could n't read, since when I took it out, my friends gasped, a girl stole it and began reading it, and we had to mount a rescue operation. My friend asked her if she had a jellybean, so she was confused, and I snuck around and pulled the stool out from under her. She dropped the book, I grabbed it, and ran. This all happened today in second period Chamber Orchestra, while Mr Lewis was making a cellist audition. Anyway, It will take me a little time to read.

I also got my old coach back in swimming. ( Not necessarily a plus..)He is a good coach, but when he left to coach at the Mitty summer DACA location, we got Coach Eric. Coach Eric made the sets really long, but easy. He was really funny too. Our old coach is really mean sometimes and loses his temper really fast. Otherwise he is a great coach too.

Okay guys ttyl. Laters!

rest of today/booklist

Hey guys, I had a pretty normal day, except for my sister trying to eat yogurt with a fork......anyway, you may have noticed that I have added a booklist page to my blog. This is where I will be reviewing books that I have NEVER read before (bye, Harry Potter) and maybe you might want to read them. The first book I am going to review is going to be Twilight by Stephanie Meyer. Probably 99.99% of all SMART people are saying ewwwww why would a cool person like Rohan read a silly book like that? Well, I have not read it before, and I have really only judged it from my friend's perspectives. I am a fast reader, so you can expect my review to come in about 3-5 days.I will post a background info article on the book on the Booklist page, if you want you can read that too. Okay, Bye!

today so far

Today so far...nice title, right! Well, in the morning I had a private bass lesson, where I got a new bow. (My teacher has been hinting that thew school bass bow that I use is really junky) So I am happy about that, except that I don't have a case for it. I don't know if I want to keep it in Mr Lewis's office...HEY! speaking of Mr. Lewis, I got second chair in Chamber Orchestra. Danny beat me, but I think that was because his solo was reeeeeeaaaalllllllly easy. But second chair is still really good and I am SO going to challenge Danny as soon as I learn how.

The other thing that happened today is that we went to the farmers market in Mountain View. My mom knows the area well, her company is right there. We spent like 25 minutes there, and got some fresh grapes, coconut water ( I know, right!) and then headed to Pho Garden, a pho restaurant. The restaurant was very modern and nice, plus the waiters could understand you and be understood. They also had this thing called the Pho Challenge. Wait! Pho is like a broth kind of thing with noodles and lemons and cilantro and shallots and cool stuff like that. So the Pho Challenge is this gigantic bowl of pho with 2 lbs of noodles and 2lbs of meat or tripe or whatever and you have an hour to finish it. If you finish, then you get the bowl and something else that I forgot. If you lose, you get a T-shirt. I wasn't even able to finish a normal sized one! ( What does that tell you?)

Okay I have math homework from Ms Bull to finish ( cool name, huh?) so I will post later. BYEEE!

the first loss

AS you probably can tell from the title, the Raiders lost to the silly 49ers, 28-24. The Raiders played really well, with three amazing touchdowns and a 57-yard field goal, but the 9ers managed to score at the last minute, making it 26-24. Then they converted it to two, so the score became 28-24.. Even worse, the starting QB for the Raiders got injured. Jason Campbell suffered a "stinger" to the neck and may be out for a while now. On the good side, the newspapers were not very harsh, but they made a big deal about Campbell's injury. Normally writers like Tim Kawakami are really mean to the Raiders, but the writers just focused on the big hit to Jason Campbell. Next week's game is against the Seahawks, on Thursday. Watch it!!

Upcoming game!

Hey everyone! As you all SHOULD know, there is another Raiders game this week, the 49ers vs. the Raiders. the 49ers are probably the second-best team in the NFC right now, since their coaching, players, and all their other team stuff has drastically improved. Last year, they won six games. This will be another Raider victory , I hope.

A quick trip to Jersey

Hey everyone! I spent this past weekend in New Jersey. Our family went there because one of our distant relatives had a baby, named Arlo. ( He happens to be extremely cutely adorable). When a baby becomes 6 months old, they go through this ceremony called an Anna Prashan. Basically, the baby is fed in front of a lot of people, then he is shown a plate of different items, such as a pen, a book, a rock, and other items , which determine his career. Arlo picked up the money and promptly began to eat it.

New Jersey was really humid, and I was sweating in my jeans when we got to our friends house in the morning. A puja for the Arlo happened at 2 and we came back at 11 pm.We spent the first night at our friends wonderful house, and the next day we went to the reception, where my sister and I played hide and seek in the back garden with our friends. We then went to another cousin's house, which was on a lake. They even had their own dock! Unfortunately, it was raining lightly and they did not have a boat. We went inside and enjoyed an hour or so playing Lego Harry Potter for Wii. Lego Harry Potter is reeeaaaallly interesting, since none of the characters talk. Anyway, we had a nice dinner then retired to bed. We woke up at 3 in the morning and rushed to the airport to board our flight at 6. We were barely even jetlagged due to such a short trip. N

The Raiders WON!!!

THE RAIDERS WON!!! The score was 17-9. The best part was that until 6 minutes left in the game, Dallas was winning 9-0.Then in the sixth minute the Raiders scored a touchdown on an awesome catch by Nick Miller. After the extra point, the score was 7-9. Dallas was blown off the field by a flawless Raider defense,who had 5 sacks on the QB, and the offense went up the field to score a 20-yard field goal. The score was 10-9 with 4 minutes left.If Dallas scored a field goal, the would have the lead. Dallas began their final drive pretty well, all the way up to the 50 yd line. Then their backup quarterback, Jon Kitna, threw an interception right into the hands of a Raider defensive back, who sprinted up the field for a touchdown return. After another conversion, the score was 17-9. Dallas had just a tiny chance left, and the QB threw a deep pass all the way to the end zone............for another Raider interception. The game was over, with Dallas being thrashed in their own stadium. A link for more info....http://scores.espn.go.com/nfl/recap?gameId=300812006

Here is a cool pic from the game--Tony Romo-Dallas star QB being sacked by lineman Trevor Scott.

The Raiders

You may not know, but my favorite football team of all time happens to be the Oakland Raiders. Yes, you are probably saying to yourself that they suck and how could anyone possibly support them, but the Raiders have one of the largest fan bases in the NFL. I am a proud member of the Raider Nation. Anyway, I'm posting this since today is the first Raiders game--Raiders vs. the Dallas Cowboys. The Raiders have some new players, such as middle linebacker Rolando McClane. My dad tells me that he is an awesome player, and hopefully he'll be able to help. In my opinion, all the Raiders really need is to improve their offensive line so they can protect the quarterback. The Raiders also have a new quarterback-Jason Campbell. He used to play for the Washington Redskins( who thrashed us hollow last year). Dallas has a superb team, and unless the Raiders can hold together their defense , they will be beaten up. The game is tonight at 6-make sure you catch the game!

Rolando McClain-stripping the runningback

Camping Trip

This past weekend my family went on a two day camping trip with some of our family friends. Most of the families came on late afternoon on Friday, but my dad came at noon on Saturday because he wanted to go running that morning. Well, on Friday, my friends and I hung out around the barbecue pit area and threw a football around, attempted to play some cricket. We had a light dinner, and night began to fall, so we tried to light a fire with charcoals. With many lighter-fluid-sprayings, match-droppings, and desperate fire fanning, the fire managed to stay alight for no more than two minutes at a time. This made for a great time roasting marshmallows, and light hearted jokes. The kids retired to my family's tent to play Apples to Apples, a game that caused incessant laughter deep into the night.

I was the first person in the campsite to wake up at around 6:10 in the morning. The night at the campsite was so freezing That i woke up several times in the night. The temperature was no different come morning. We attempted again to start a fire to keep warm until the sun ripped through the fog. ( I forgot to say, this campsite was in the hills, and we were so high up that we were in a cloud in the morning.) We groggily move about the campsite, eating breakfast, while the adults decided they wanted to go on a run and investigate the lake. We had all seen a lake on the way in and were looking forward to swimming in it. We were all planning to swim and play games and have a blast at the lake. We basked in our happiness until the adults returned only to burst our bubble--we were not allowed to swim in the pool. We were desperate for something to do, so we unsuccessfully tried to play UNO , but then we found something pretty fun. We spent an hour setting up a volleyball net. We then spent about ten minutes playing volleyball, and twenty more playing badminton. We stood around, chatting and drinking soda for a while, until we had the idea to ask the dads to play volleyball with us. We played three super fun sets. We then enjoyed an excellent barbecue dinner. The next morning we woke up and began the rigorous cleanup process--getting rid of litter and packing up the tents and filling the cars withall the bedding that had been brought, along with everything else. This was an excellent trip overall.

The lake near our campsite--supposedly 'unswimmable'

MOvie Review

Yesterday I watched a movie, HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON, in 3d. The story was very nice, and made me laugh. It also kept me very hooked onto the story, and the 3d effects were okay. There was only one downside to this film, and that was that Vikings did not have catapults in real life like they did in the movie. However, that was only a minor problem, and the movie was great otherwise.

ROHANS RATING:

**** (4 stars)