tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5923317.post140744889437338871..comments2024-01-15T10:38:08.064+08:00Comments on Tochs. Thoughts On Climbing Happenings Scribbled & Serialized : Dado Banatao's Local TV Interviewtochshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01262930692895643112noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5923317.post-51866670007123776812014-03-14T17:52:49.442+08:002014-03-14T17:52:49.442+08:00At the wake of my cousin Leonardo in Manila, one o...At the wake of my cousin Leonardo in Manila, one of the persons who paid last respect was his high school classmate at the Ateneo de Tuguegarao, Dado Banatao. Dado was a major enabler of Info Tech at Silicon Valley having created the motherboards, microchips and worked with Bill Gates and Steve Jobs.<br />I took the opportunity to introduce myself fascinated by his success as disclosed in a TV interview of Boy Abunda "Bottomline" way back 2012. I so admired him not because he comes from Iguig, a small town in Cagayan but because of his humility which led me to write a short article about the talk.<br />The night of his Manila visit this 13 March 2014, I asked him about the progress of his advocacy to elevate the literacy level of IT in the Philippines. "Not yet at its threshold, challenged but encouraging," he said as I paraphrased.<br /> <br />The start of the mass cut short our talk but that moment with Dado, was like the closing line he blurted out in his TV talk, "I'm in heaven when working."tochshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01262930692895643112noreply@blogger.com