More about me
I was born in Johannesburg, South Africa. My parents introduced
us to computers at a really young age. I must say that I can remember
playing on it since I was a very young boy. Probably about 2 - 3
years of age. I have always wanted to know what goes on inside a
computer and how programs are made and run. I played a little with
Basic's Gorilla modifying the gravity levels etc...
At the age of 6 or 7 we moved to Pretoria where I went to Constantia
Park Primary. I remember feeling bad that I left my friends behind
and wanted to keep in contact. Then one day I was sitting with my
brother on the side-walk waiting for my mom or dad to come pick
us up and seeing a girl that was in my school back in Johannesburg.
It felt quite nice seeing someone I knew. I remember speaking to
her once or twice. Life was very funny back then. I got caught for
all the wrong reasons. I left my lunch inside the classroom once
and wanted to go fetch it. I saw that the door was locked and decided
the climb through the window. To my surprise my teacher was in the
class with the principal and immediately noticed me. You can imagine
what happened next. I felt so bad that my father had to come to
school only to find out from the teacher and the principal that
I had been left behind with my math's homework and the story goes
on but I was in grade 5 and didn't think too much back then...
I finally made it to grade 8 and was in Garsfontein Highschool.
A really nice place to be. I really felt at home there. I recall
this one moment very clearly. We had this play that we were supposed
to perform infront of alot of people and my teacher said. "You
don't have a part, you better come up with something". So I
did. I grabbed a pair of gumboots and a father christmas outfit.
In the middle of the play I would run out and shout : "HO HO
HO, oops, wrong scene". Now that was funny. There was also
this matric girl that came and kissed me and said : "That was
funny, well done" and I never saw her face since I have my
father christmas mask on. (If you are reading this and kissed a
boy around 10 years ago with a father christmas mask on. please
contact me.)
So I went through highschool making alot of good friends until the
middle of grade 8 when we had to move to Richardsbay.
Time flew so fast, I cannot really remember lots of the grades I
did there until about grade 10 when I met a wonderful girl. We went
out for 1 year and a couple of months and in that time I really
saw the time flying. When we broke up I was in grade 11 and really
wondered what I was going to do. All I knew was spending time with
her.
So moving on... grade 12 was very very funny and I really enjoyed
the time. I had 2 great friends, Ivon and Danie. These okes were
a laugh from start to finish. We pulled all kinds of pranks and
really had a fun time all around. After matric(Grade 12) I started
working at a company as a draughtsman. I really enjoyed it for a
bit and 2 months after I started there I moved to another company
that offered me a higher salary. So it went on until I got to 2002
when I moved to Durban and started studying (Mechanical Engineering).
I started programming again. From there on it was one way and that's
the 101101 way.
I soon started studying Information Technology(Development Software).
From that time I have became friends with a very good bunch of friends.Tony
Whitaker, Graham Wihlidal. Thank you guys and to the others from
#graphicsdev. These guys really inspired me to be where I want to
be one day and that's to work for a game development company.
For now I am signing off. I might add to this when I'm bored again.
Lots of nice little things that I missed out.