When I first saw a computer, I knew instantly that it would be my true friend that I feel it would talk to me.
So it did. It communicates right into my soul and it was love at first sight.
I learned computers quite differently, It is my older brother's computer and he don't like anyone to use it.
I was sneeking, hiding, reading books at the dark, afraid that he would awake, and if he did, it would be a big consequence.
I risk myself of getting beaten and hurt just to learn computers.
I had to make a deal with him he can't refuse, so I trade my Nintendo for a 2400bps modem to someone
to connect to BBS back in 1994 and later in 1996 the Internet.
At that time, I was secretly installing slackware Linux into his hard drive in a partition and using a floppy to boot it.
Bash prompt instantly became a euphoria for me like a drug addiction.
Until my brother notices that the free space in his 545MB hard disk is shrinking, I told him it was Microsoft Office eating up his space, then Windows 95 came out, he had a copy and installed it, he soon find out about the partition and totally banned me from using the computer.
In 2 years, I had to resolved my hunger for learning, I go to farthest places searching for somebody who want their computer to be fixed and boot my floppy linux. I was 12 and I was travelling 100 of kilometers by bus just to use a computer, not even the pouring rain in me all soaking wet stopped me.
It was then when my dad bought a second computer, that I have to stop going to places. It was a joy!
This then turn the page for another chapter of my life, full of challenges, drama and sacrifies. A class computer assignment programmer during highschool, then a school thesis programmer for students and professors as a sideline in college which then I was hired by the school CEO while I was taking my history class.
Moreover will come..
