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Australian Open 2010!

Hey folks! For all the tennis fans out there, it’s been a pretty exciting day #2 of the Australian Open in the first-round matches. The Federer vs. Andreev match showed a couple of real close-calls but in the end he made it through and a lot of other players are still playing as I write [...]

My New Favorite YouTube Video

Check this out! 32 songs in 8 minutes of awesomeness:

Thoughts on Individualism

I was flying from Seattle into Virginia yesterday and while two babies behind me were competing to see who could scream louder and kick the seat in front of them harder, and I was trying to make sense of the on-flight movie, 500 Days of Summer, I came upon an interesting thought. It might sound [...]

Me Playing the Piano

I purchased a Yamaha M08 recently in order to be able to hook up to my computer and compose for my games. Now that I finally got it hooked up yesterday, I recorded two songs; one for classical fans and one for video game fans. Check them out!
Download MP3 here:
Moonlight Sonata by Ludwig Van Beethoven
To [...]

The Official Raphael Twitter Feed!

Recently, I’ve been checking out the beta of the new Xbox update that is releasing soon and I was pretty impressed with the Twitter App in the update. And although the whole Twitter phenomenon is strange to me, I see the potential it has combined with other technologies. And with that, here’s showing a bit of my [belated] technophilic side: [...]

Videogame != Source Code

My friend, Chris, is an awesome game developer who taught me quite a bit about what it means to make a game. He recently commented on an article called “What Pac-Man Really Looks Like”, which brings up the question of whether a disassembly of the Pac-Man program is what the game really is. It seems [...]

An Incredibly Talented Country Singer/Songwriter…

I’d been meaning to write about Taylor Swift for a long while now and it seems like after the Kanye West incident at the MTV Music Video Awards, there couldn’t be a better time to explain my praises for this amazingly talented singer/songwriter.
It might be easy to pass this singer off as a pretty girl who sings [...]

U.S. Open News: 9th Seed, Caroline Wozniacki!

If you’ve been listening to any news today regarding the world of tennis, the big highlight today was the Quarterfinals match between the Danish 9th Seed, Caroline Wozniacki, and the American unseeded Melanie Oudin, the “Cinderella Story”. Being an evening match in New York at the U.S. Open, the clear crowd favorite was Oudin who has been [...]

Rapha’s Update

Hey all!
It’s been a while since I last updated! It’s been a pretty hectic two months and is now already September. Unbelievable… A tremendous chunk of my time has been dedicated to improving my skills in tennis, including working with three different coaches, each focusing on different aspects of my game and was playing seven [...]

Wimbledon News 2: The New Andy Roddick!

Last time I mentioned Lleyton Hewitt and his journey this year in Wimbledon, but another player that has often been overlooked by the popularity of players like Federer is Andy Roddick who is pretty much the King of Serves. He has an explosively fast serve that just never seems to stop even after 4 full [...]