Snippets of thought and poems from "Shifting Shades & In-betweens", by Chito L. Aguilar. Don your stereo headsets for a contemplative AV experience that may lull you to sleep or give you chimes that you can keep.
Manuel Jose Regalado (Noel, a.k.a. Gala) is a Career Scientist. He
was conferred the rank of Scientist I by the CSC-DOST Scientific Career
Council last July 2009 and was inducted as member of PACS after taking
oath as a career scientist.
He obtained his BS Agricultural
Engineering degree from UPLB. He moved further to become Master of
Agricultural Engineering (UPLB) and Doctor of Agricultural Science
(Iwate University). He works at PhilRice, based in Nueva Ecija.
He
went to USA last month, where he presented a scientific paper on
reduced tillage and mechanical methods of rice crop establishment to
improve efficiency & minimize costs in rice production at the 2010
Annual International Meeting of the American Society of Agricultural
& Biological Engineers (ASABE) in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Noel is
a member of ASABE for 11 years now. His official trip, supported by
DA-Agricultural Training Institute - Extension Human Resource
Development Program, brought him not only to Pittsburgh, but also to New
York via Philadelphia, PA and Newark, NJ.
His institute,
PhilRice, will soon set up a Bicol branch station in Ligao, Albay. The
facility will be established in a 7-hectare land in Brgy. Batang along
the highway going to Tabaco via Sabloyon. When the office building is
finally constructed, it will have the majestic Mayon Volcano as
background.
Noel was designated Program Leader of PhilRice's
Location Specific Technology Development (LSTD) Program. This program
has several LSTD sites at clustered rice farmers' fields in Camarines
Sur, Sorsogon and Albay. Once settled in, he says he will make sure to
visit Bicol often, especially Albay, since their branch station here is
new.
He hopes to see Stags during his visits to Bicol and looks forward to our reunion in December 2010.