I had forgotten about RealMedia!

What hurts the most is how suddenly he left. But in truth, no one ever really leaves completely.

We love and miss you so much, Pá’. Rest in peace. We carry you with us and will remember you always.

I hope I can be the same kind of example for my children, and give them the same love he always gave us. We never lacked anything. He always reminded us to keep studying, to keep working, and to always move forward.

The family adventures we shared. How we’d all come home for Christmas and be together again, even if just for a while.

…or how I’d see him working late at night preparing the school schedule or grading papers while I pretended to be asleep in the room where we all slept together. The naps we’d take in the air conditioning after school.

I remember the care he put into every project he took on: the garden he loved so much, the meals he cooked, the little blue Datsun (our other brother) that he restored and cared for deeply…

Seeing him in his lab coat made me believe that all scientists wore one, although I later found out that wasn’t really the case (except for that week we visited the local hospital during a research trip from graduate school).

I remember how, at the end of the school year, he would bring out the human body models in the biology lab—models that used to scare me—and the experiments he performed in front of everyone.

But I owe my career to my dad—and that curiosity he always had for every single little thing.

My dad had a collection of thin 5-inch floppy disks with games and 16-color animations covering all the school classes. I think it was a Commodore 64. What I clearly remember is that all the programs were written in BASIC, even though I didn’t understand anything about programming yet.

Among many memories, I remember when he started managing the computer lab at the middle school. The only computer I had seen until then didn’t have a monitor—you had to connect the cables to a VCR and then to the TV.

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