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He now has his dream digital camera, a Canon PowerShot A540 (a birthday gift from Techie, Toto, Sam, Jinny,
Daphne); he now illustrates many of his online essays such as those in this book with his own photos. He taught
himself photography by studying the masters (painters), asking questions from the masters (photographers).
He was one of the editors of the International Center for Living Aquatic Resources Management (ICLARM, now
WorldFish), where he remembers reading on optimum sustained yield (OSY) of fisheries. That was in 1981;
sometimes he doesn’t forget. Which reminds him: Why aren’t they talking OSY in agriculture, forestry, etc?
He is currently Editor in Chief of the Philippine Journal of Crop Science, a publication of the Crop Science Society
of the Philippines. He transformed this virtually dead journal (typewriter-typesetter publishing, 2 years late) to a
vibrant publication (up-to-date) using Microsoft Word 2003, using his experience, using his head.
He is a high school teacher by profession (he passed the Teacher’s Exam, 80.6%), graduating from the University
of the Philippines College of Agriculture with a BSA major in Ag Ed. In December 1985, he introduced himself to the
personal computer; they have been inseparable ever since. He’s at home most of the time now, and mostly in
front of the PC. He doesn’t get tired working at the keyboard for hours; you will get tired waiting for him to get off
the keyboard. When he’s not at home and you want to see him, try the nearest Internet café in town. If you have
a project, anywhere, he waits for your book to come to him because it could not take off the ground, or it was
already very late.
When he is not in front of the PC, he is in front of the TV watching CSI Miami, a Korean or a Taiwanese telenovela,
a Filipino fantasy series. Or reading a new second-hand book, or re-reading an old copy. Other times, he is
watching James Bond (Sean Connery, Pierce Brosnan), or Jackie Chan, or The Incredibles or Toy Story on a CD/
DVD player at home in the Philippines.
He is 67, and you wonder how he works wonders with the PC or, that which is the same, how the PC works wonders
with him. He is a model of the saying, which of course he has revised:
You can’t teach old dogs new tricks, fat chance!
You have to give the old dogs the chance to change.
Why not buy them a new black Core 2 Duo PC
with 1 GB memory, 320 GB hard disk,
along with a black 17" LCD LG monitor,
not to forget an Epson Stylus CX2900 color printer,
an HP LaserJet 1020 printer?
That way, you encourage the old dogs to teach themselves!