WauloK : The life and interests of an Aussie

 I’ve finally made some more decisions for my life. Besides moving to Sydney in the next couple of months I’ve decided a couple of other things.

Firstly, I want to program games and other applications for the iPhone and Macintosh OSX.  For years I wanted to do programming but could not settle on a platform and language. Well, now I have. This will at some time later this year involve purchasing a Macintosh myself. I think I will get a Macbook as I want a laptop and not a huge machine to lug around and take up space and electricity when it’s really not needed these days.  I currently have an old Dell D600 computer borrowed from work which I’ve put Mac OSX 10.5.2 onto.  It’s enough to be able to program applications for Mac OSX and the iPhone.  I have been reading my Cocoa Programming for Mac OSX book on and off for some time (mostly off) but today I took the laptop to work and started doing some of the exercises. It’s starting to make a bit of sense now.  I also ordered a book from Amazon.com called Beginning iPhone Programming: Exploring the SDK.  It should arrive about March 19th .. two days before my birthday. Great timing!

Secondly, I’ve started researching information on getting into Voiceover work.  I’ve recently created some promos for the Tech Talk Radio show from 3WBC in Melbourne. The presenters asked for listeners to create some new promos they could put on the show this year.  I have uploaded them to my Voiceovers page if you want to have a listen.  There’s some serious attempts and some cartoony ones.  I also joined Voices.com and have my own mini webpage there.  I’m on the lookout for more work in that field and will take up more lessons when I get to Sydney.

Thirdly, I’ve decided to learn about music. I have a Casio CTK-810 keyboard I bought a few months ago but have hardly used.  Tonight I went for my first lesson and had a fantastic time. It’s only $25 for each half-hour lesson or $50 for a full hour.  I started with a half hour lesson to see how I’d go.  I’ve started practicing playing a song and seem to be understanding some of the theory and reading notes already.  I brought the sheet music home and practiced it for an hour.  The first lesson was about notes in the Bass Clef (played with the left hand) and so I did that, but I also worked out where the other notes in the Treble Clef were and played a few with my right hand at the same time as the others with my left.  It took some brain twisting but I could do two notes with my right hand while doing one with my left.  Neat. Only now when I go back to practicing with my left hand only the music doesn’t sound as good hehe.

It’s great having direction and these things are also giving me the great anticipation and direction I need in my life at this time. I’m really happy and optimistic for the first time in years.