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I was just tinkering—curious about computers.

It amazed me how humanity could harness electricity and transform it into functional machines that performed tasks for us. I remember playing Formula 1 game (pixelated game on a floppy disk, it looked like this) watching the cars move on the screen, wondering how it was happening.

My PC case was always open. Since the age of five, I was fascinated by the components inside. I never quite understood what those tall, cylindrical capacitors did on the motherboard, so I’d remove them (read: break them) and take them to my dad, asking, “What does this do?”

He always tried his best to explain; and for that and reparing or getting me new hardware, I’m grateful.

My TX vanity plate reads “66MHz.” It might not seem funny, but it catches the attention of fellow nerds. More importantly, it’s a tribute to my late dad. I remember staring at the sticker on the black CPU box, sounding out the letters: “6-6 M-H-Z… What does that mean?”

My dad got up from his chair, walked to my room, and flipped the light switch off. He waited a second, then flipped it back on. “That was one second,” he said. “The computer flips its tiny switches like this—66 million times in a second. Isn’t that fast?”

That moment stuck with me, and all the learnings and inspirations I had thanks to him.

I am who I am not only because of my dad but because of everyone I’ve had the chance to learn from. Whether weeks or months or years or a decade, every experience has shaped me.

Thank you—for the lessons and the inspirations!

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