About Mara Kelland

Mara Kelland is a licensed Simply Music Piano and Inner Musician Play A Story teacher. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from AUT and a Certificate in Freelance Journalism from the New Zealand Institute of Business Studies. Through all her studies, music was her constant companion and is her first love.

My Photography

I have always been interested in taking photos. When I was a little girl my Grandma had an old camera in her toy box and I would take great pleasure in pretending to shoot photos of people with it. Then when I was eleven my parents gave me a camera for my birthday- it was [...]

I Discover Freegal

Feels so great to be free of AUT [sighs deeply.]. Now I have more time for other things like planning for my California trip. But today I wanted to talk about Freegal Itt stands for free and legal and is downloadable Mp3’s from the Sony catalogue. One can download 3 songs a week. Ask your [...]

Where have I been all this time?

Dear Readers,You may ask where I have been. Here’s a small sample. Reading The Man who Broke in to Auschwitz Peaches for Monsuier La Curate: Chocolat Book III A Land mMore Kind Than Home Uni Writing portfolio for co-op and study for exam on November 2. Listeng to Bryn Terfel — The Vagabond and Other Songs of [...]

Why FaceBook Smells

Jingle bells FaceBook smells Tumblr go awayMySpace yuck Foursquare SucksTwitter all the way! I have already talked about why I like Twitter but the above silly parody of a christmas carol made me think about FaceBook. I send my tweets and my tumblings to Fb because I know people who follow me there want to [...]

Deep In The Bowels of GarageBand

For the last few days I have been playing very intensively with GarageBand, Apple’s recording software. It’s been great fun manipulating myself and playing piano and keyboard strings and singing songs that I love. But something really bad happened. It kept freezing up and I had to force quit it. I didn’t know what had [...]

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