Digital PH Fast & First!

Nestor Maniebo Pestelos from Tiaong, Quezon, married & living in Tagbilaran City, Bohol, is a good friend of mine, mind, dating back 60+ years when we were students at UPCA, now UP Los Baños – we both took the competitive writing exam for the Editor In Chief of the UPCA Student Body Organization ’s newspaper called Aggie Green & Gold , and he won. He already had content and style, from voracious reading, including Jean-Paul Sarte – existentialist. Me, never heard of him! And you know what Nestor Mn Pestelos did as Editor In Chief? He appointed Frank A Hilario, a stranger, full-blooded Ilocano, Tagalog Editor ! A historical first. Ah, but in high school, I had been devouring Liwayway and Bulaklak ! The other day or so, I saw Nestor’s Lament on Facebook, this: Nestor Maniebo Pestelos NOTES TO MYSELF AT 70 (… First time to be posted)… Surprised I found this in my digital file. This was written 9 years ago, when I reached 70. Must find time to finish it now that I feel my b...

"I AM ADAM" means "I am an All-Around Advanced Digital Assistant For Modern Manuscript Management” at your service! My one-man-band work for the issues of 2001-2008 as Editor In Chief of the Philippine Journal of Crop Science (PJCS) published by the Crop Science Society of the Philippines (CSSP) based at UP Los Baños in Laguna, is an excellent example of what I can do for anybody, or any group, with my skills as ADAM – “All-Around Advanced Digital Assistant For Modern Manuscript Management” – that is an original coinage. With the PJCS, I did everything except write the papers published – I did write the editorial, though; and I designed the covers of all the 22 issues of PJCS that I worked on until it became “ISI” – meaning, it was listed in the internationally prestigious list called ISI (now Web of Science ). This is from the 03 June 2013 essay that I uploaded to my blog named after me: Frank A Hilario ( frankahilario.blogspot.com ), where I said pertinently about th...