A Stellar Life | Kenneth Porio

When?

kenneth_porio2005@yahoo.com (Kenneth Porio) — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:35:00 +0000

Many times I ignored God's little ting-a-ling when I am continuing to walk in His ways. The result: cursed, unfruitful, dry. But now, I could not take it anymore. I have to be in His shadow, under His covering so I can truly hope for a future that is in line with His ways. God is Good and I could not ever take it for granted.

While I am persevering in the Vision, I am still chained over by my family's unbelief that I turned away from their ways. I didn't follow them in how they pray, I didn't follow them in how they worry about life. I wanted to cry out to God - why did You have to say I don't have to worry about anything when my family tends me to follow with their worries?

Whenever I am spending time in the LORD, I come with revelations about my disciples, my life in school, my life in the ministry, but where is in my family? I don't know why, but how come He hasn't showed it yet? Is my heart not yet right to receive the Word that He wants to share to me while I spend time with Him? Family: oikos, the household, where is the "household" part here?

I am persevering in the Vision to win souls and make disciples. But what time will the LORD command me to share His Beautiful Gospel to my family - the family I grew up with, the family that I want to spend eternity with, the family I will enjoy till the LORD comes back again? When? When? When?

I wait earnestly for His call.

⁵ I wait for the LORD, my soul waits,
And in His word I do hope. (Psalm 130:5, New King James Version)

KENNETH

Transformers=Gnosticism?

kenneth_porio2005@yahoo.com (Kenneth Porio) — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 03:10:00 +0000

Would you be surprised if the movie Transformers is a subtle display of Gnosticism?

Go to this link and find out:

http://theater.goodfight.org/?vdId=Transformers

KENNETH

Waiting for the Perfect Time

kenneth_porio2005@yahoo.com (Kenneth Porio) — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 01:09:00 +0000

Dear friends,

I'm spending my 30 minutes on the Internet while the exams have not yet been starting this week.

Hindi ako mapakali nang nawawalan ako ng pagkakataon makipagsaya sa aking mga naging kaibigan sa Simbahan. It seems I could not think of a way to make up with my lost opportunities of being one with my fellow leaders in the Church.

It seems the LORD has tapping me to spend time with my family. I lost so much time with them when I am not around, being with school and with the ministry. Yes, I do believe in the 5 Priorities in Life: God, Self, Family, Ministry, Work/School. Sometimes, it breaks me to realize that I'm not enjoying the life that God wants me to have. It seems that things are too much tight for me right now. It seems a cloud of confusion has elevated in my mind. My mind has been functioning too hard that I could not concentrate on taking change in my heart, to set it to God's own will.

¹⁴ Wait on the LORD;
         Be of good courage,
         And He shall strengthen your heart;
         Wait, I say, on the LORD! (Psalm 27:14, New King James Version)

Waiting for the LORD's perfect time will bring me hope that all these bad things that has happened to me will not pass by with nothing. Everything will be fixed and I could not let it pass by. I have to work this out. I have to. I have to.

As I end the semester, I am waiting for the LORD's time - a time for the people around me to see that I have shined in the darkness of this fallen world.

In the mighty Name of JESUS CHRIST. Amen.

KENNETH

My FIRST 1.0!

kenneth_porio2005@yahoo.com (Kenneth Porio) — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 02:27:00 +0000

I'm just so happy today that I received my very first 1.0 grade in my study in UP Mindanao!

I got my 1.0 in AH4/HUM1 (Adventures in Fiction, Poetry and Drama), under the supervision of Prof. Jhoanna Lynn Cruz. In this course, my mind was tickled with the many literature works that Prof. Cruz has shared to us - short stories, novel excerpts, poems, plays, even a 1950s movie adaptation of a Japanese classic! We ended with a play production that went very successfully.

So, I'm so blessed to have a 1.0; it's God's grace that worked.

More to come!

KENNETH

ASL ME! on iPhone

kenneth_porio2005@yahoo.com (Kenneth Porio) — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 08:02:00 +0000

This is a preview of ASL Mobile Edition! on the iPhone. The widget below is a simulation of the iPhone having ASL ME! in the mobile browser.

Get ASL ME! Log-on to http://astellarlife.mofuse.mobi/ on your mobile browser.

KENNETH

CNN International: Going Beyond Borders

kenneth_porio2005@yahoo.com (Kenneth Porio) — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 13:08:00 +0000

From having you "be the first to know", now CNN International makes you "go beyond borders".

Since 21 September 2009, CNN International got its new on-air look and feel, with its new tagline to "Go Beyond Borders".

I don't know why I'm fond of CNN right now. CNN makes news more exciting for me. I don't know what I get from the CNN effect...

KENNETH

CNN on Typhoon Ketsana & Parma (Ondoy & Pepeng)

kenneth_porio2005@yahoo.com (Kenneth Porio) — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 18:16:00 +0000

Eunice Yoon, CNN Asia Business Editor did a coverage in the Philippines during the Ketsana-Parma double disaster.

You can help at CNN.com/Impact.

KENNETH

Trading Partners...and More

kenneth_porio2005@yahoo.com (Kenneth Porio) — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 08:05:00 +0000

Our AH4/HUM1 lineup of play productions, with plays written by BA English students for their CW130 (Playwriting) class, are still up and going. This is our final project for this term, under the supervision of our AH4/HUM1 instructor, Prof. Jhoanna Lynn Cruz.

Trading Partners, a play by Kelly Marie Conlon (who recently won the EU Whiz competition and just came home from a European tour), is about a couple who had a turmoiled marriage after the husband had affairs with a gay boss, while the wife, a dance instructor, had a relationship with one of her students. The cast, shown in the photo are: L-R seated: Jan Reynald Shane Coquilla (1-BSFT) as Kevin, the dance student; Kriza Faye Calumba (1-BSFT) as Marcia, the dance instructor/wife; Patrick Deo dela Cruz (1-BSFT) as Allan, the estranged husband; and (standing) Kenneth Porio [ME!] as Donnie, the gay boss and ex-lover of Allan.

This is my first theater role since I left Colegio de San Ignacio, my Alma Mater, and my first time to portray a gay role. I was awkward to play the role but I had conquered my fears through the encouragement of the writer.

More plays have been done and still coming from AH4. Just done are Pabili ng Gayuma para sa Valentine Ko (starring Aubrey Pascual (1-BSCS) and GR Magayano (1-BSCS)), Love Letters ni Conchita (starring John Michael Santiago (1-BSCS) and Kris Castromayor (1-BSCS)), Harajuku Girl (starring Viktoria Diosana (1-BSAM)), and this play. Still to come are listed below with schedules and venues, and starring roles:

08 October 2009, CHSS AVR, UPMin

Doubles (starring Tim Lamoglia (1-BSCS))
Red Wine for Teddy (starring Renaire Odarve (1-BSCS) and Joseph Rick Paragili (1-BSCS))

09 October 2009, CHSS AVR, UPMin

Blind Item (starring CJ Dajao (2-BSB))
Now Showing: Romeo and Juliet (starring Ferina Santos (2-BACA) and Venz Israel (2-BSA))

Don't Miss It!

KENNETH

Discr[ete] Relief

kenneth_porio2005@yahoo.com (Kenneth Porio) — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 03:27:00 +0000

Oh, well, I'm back to what I thought was my Waterloo topic in CMSC57 last year: Recurrence Relations and Generating Functions. As I don't want to fail again to look at that definition again that linear homogenous recurrence relations of degree d with constant coefficients (whew!) are of this form: and generating functions are of this form: , I skimmed through a few in the myriads of books on Discrete Math.

I'm so happy that my family gave me a chance to hold a copy of Discrete Mathematics and its Applications by Kenneth Rosen, and it gave me hope in those previous topic discussed which were combinatorics and graph theory. My instructor, Prof. Vanessa Ramoran mostly uses Rosen in her discussions, which gave me some sort of relief. (Good thing the author's name is same as mine. LOL X-D) Rosen also has a preview of the topics relating to my future Computer Science courses: Logic Circuits and Boolean Algebra for CMSC130 and Automata Theory for CMSC141. I'm looking forward to that.

Ma'am Van also uses Discrete Mathematics by Richard Johnsonbaugh as an alternative read, and I wanted to have a copy, too. It presents a more comprehensible method of the topics on recurring problems.

As an alternative read for me to understand the topic I just mentioned, I downloaded Generatingfunctionology by Herbert Wiff. I greatly understood more of the beauty and uses of Generating Functions and how it relates to Power Series I learned in MATH28. No wonder I got more tools.

YES, I CAN DO IT! I CAN PASS THE WATERLOO!

KENNETH

Atsal

kenneth_porio2005@yahoo.com (Kenneth Porio) — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 03:43:00 +0000

Natilaw nako ang atsal
sa usa ka platitong
kalderetang kambing.
Lami nga pagka-parat
nga pagka-halang.
Lamas ra man na
ang atsal.
Walay hinabang gayud.
Pero kon walay atsal
dili lami
ang nakaon nimong
pagka-lami sa pagka-sarsa.

KENNETH

Atsal is a Cebuano term for bell pepper.

Selling Books

kenneth_porio2005@yahoo.com (Kenneth Porio) — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 18:22:00 +0000

I'm planning to sell or lease these books I currently have above in the next semester so that they will be of good use to my fellow UPians in their subjects. Elements of Style will be useful in AH1/COMM1 or AH2/COMM2. Discrete Mathematics... by Rosen will be useful in CMSC56/57 or MATH101.

I'll think it over first...

KENNETH

Rumi and Me

kenneth_porio2005@yahoo.com (Kenneth Porio) — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 11:32:00 +0000

I dared to ask this question in my mind: “Will I be a person who will be remembered a lot here in UP?” To that, Rumi “answers” through a line of one of his poems:

“Fall into his hands and you will weep like a cloud;
Run from him and you will freeze over like snow.”

While pondering upon Rumi's “answer”, I thought if I became too proud of myself lately. I became too selfish and self-centered. I did not care if I ruined the pride of my family, my friends – my whole circle of life. I began to catch a realization that the pronoun him refers to my God. I ran away from God and turned to my own way of showing myself that I am a student of UP, without recognizing my relationship to him. These days I feel so cold about my relationship to God, to my family and friends. I feel so empty inside that I am not really enjoying my growth as a person and as a part of the society.

The Word of God says that when we draw near to him, fall into his hands, then we will weep in our sorrows while we are cleansed by his love. Thereafter, I insist to myself that I should surrender, never be cold like snow. I should let go of my coldest of emotions. I should warm up, be free and let go of those emotions like rain. I cried a shower of tears while I relate this line from Rumi's poems to my life with respect to my God. I will soon take heart of this little reminder. There I will never run away from God and I will never run cold again. In turn, I shall be a good UP student, who will not just leave without a legacy, but with a legacy that will soon inspire the hearts of many of its students and even of this nation.

Finding the Short Way

kenneth_porio2005@yahoo.com (Kenneth Porio) — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 16:26:00 +0000

Short ways are not always the right ways.
It takes an algorithm
to find the path that leads you
to success.
Infinite it was,
finite I found it now.

My path starts:
zero, A;
my path ends:
x, Z.
x: the length of the short way.
Z the endpoint.
Finding it took a long way.

Think it over, quick! swiftly!
O the infinity sign,
get lost on that table!
I need the path - the short way.
Make my node permanent.
I'll trace it when I end.

Yes...A to Z.
A to Z - the path - short way.
Why it has to have a long way
for the short way to be known?
Maybe that's the way it should be;
shortcuts take a long time...long time.

Dijkstra, my dear.
I see how you did it.
Others have done their own proper way.
But nothing in theirs is short.
Never ever
short.

KENNETH
(Fumbling over Dijkstra.)

Tech Talk

kenneth_porio2005@yahoo.com (Kenneth Porio) — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 06:53:00 +0000

CNN.com posted an article about "The 12 most annoying types of Facebookers" which is about types of Facebook users who become an annoyance, and NetworkWorld via BusinessWeek posted "12 Words You Can Never Say in the Office" which is about the 12 tech terms that are becoming obsolete. Being a Facebook and Twitter user, with a sense of knowing what's in and what's out in the tech world, I took the interest to dig in.

Here's a video from the CNN.com article about comparing and contrasting Facebook and Twitter, and three people discuss about Facebook's and Twitter's usability and popularity.

There's a quiz included in the article and my result:

Chances are you are a popular resident on Facebook whose articles are interesting to read. Keep posting!

Maybe I'm not annoying after all in FB.

The 12 tech terms that are becoming obsolete, according to the NewsWeek article, are as follows: Intranet, Extranet, Web surfing, Push technology, Application Service Provider, Personal Digital Assistant (PDA), Internet Telephony, Weblog, Thin Client, RBOC, Long-Distance Call, World Wide Web

Surprised? No more Long-Distance Calls? Is WWW scrap? Read the full article through the link above for the full details.

KENNETH

image source: http://images.businessweek.com/ss/07/07/0719_distractions/image/3_web_surfing.jpg

Brillante Mendoza on CNN

kenneth_porio2005@yahoo.com (Kenneth Porio) — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 14:15:00 +0000

CNN's TalkAsia featured the 2009 Cannes Film Festival Best Director Brillante Mendoza. Here are the clips from the program:

KENNETH

Farewell Sir Toto

kenneth_porio2005@yahoo.com (Kenneth Porio) — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 01:33:00 +0000

I have never met Prof. Severo Bastian Jr, a professor and chief of the Biological Sciences and Environmental Studies Department of the College of Science & Mathematics. He was regarded as a comical, fun mentor to his students. But he remains a part of this great community in UP Mindanao. He will forever live in the hearts of many students that had met him since they entered this university.

Farewell Sir Toto.

KENNETH

Think Multivariable

kenneth_porio2005@yahoo.com (Kenneth Porio) — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 04:35:00 +0000

Calculus in more than two variables, and multiple-variable statistics, have been my keen interest while I'm still taking a respite from pure Mathematics majors in UP. A Computer Science major subject I will take eventually (CMSC150: Numerical Symbolic Computations) focuses in numeric computational methods in Computer Science like Numerical Differentiation and Integration, Finite Series, and the like. I also wanted to take a higher Mathematics major, MATH120 (Linear Algebra). I want to explore knowledge in vector fields, linear maps and systems of linear equations - in an advanced manner.

I am already formulating my plans for my Special Problem (a modification of the Thesis) when I am allowed to present. I plan for the following options:

Developing the UP Mindanao Integrated Information Management System (UPMIIMS) through a Learning Resource Center Subsystem, focusing on management in instructional materials and equipment management. As a Student Volunteer of the LRC, I wanted to develop this system similar to the iLib system of the UP System, but on a local scope.
Developing algorithms and data structures concerning management on the G12 Network Churches - a theoretical approach using databases and statistical analysis. This could be my contribution to the system in which my church is in. I intend not to critique the G12 Vision - I wanted to love it more. Therefore I want to make a big step in developing software.
Developing Kuya Bryan Wong's development of a SMS-based system of determining the best jeepney routes to take when going to a particular landmark destination, now extending to the three congressional districts of Davao City.

I do not yet know how God will guide me throughout these later years in my college life. I pray whatever plans God will give me, I shall take it as pleasure for His glory.

KENNETH

Q-and-A: Remembering Cory

kenneth_porio2005@yahoo.com (Kenneth Porio) — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 03:27:00 +0000

Our Q&A Poll for this month is: What you will remember of Cory Aquino?

The answers to choose are:

Led the People Power 1
President
Mother of Kris Aquino
A great Filipina
Icon of Democracy
Wife of Ninoy Aquino

Vote now on the ASL Q-and-A corner!

KENNETH

CNN on Cory Aquino's Death

kenneth_porio2005@yahoo.com (Kenneth Porio) — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 10:45:00 +0000

This is a video clip from the CNN International newscast program "CNN Today" last Saturday, 1 August 2009, when ABS-CBN News Correspondent Jing Castañeda gave a report to CNN via phone patch on the death of former Philippine president Corazon Cojuangco Aquino.

Stay tuned to ASL for more of the Special Commemorative Edition for Cory Aquino.

KENNETH

Mourning for A Leader

kenneth_porio2005@yahoo.com (Kenneth Porio) — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 05:29:00 +0000

Hello, fellow Filipinos around the blogosphere!

This week, millions of Filipinos mourned for one great Filipina.

Last weekend, a dear leader, an icon of democracy, a legend of freedom, passed away on a Saturday morning, August 1, 2009. Corazon Cojuangco Aquino, or Cory for most of her supporters and family members, died of cardio-respiratory arrest at 03:18h from a 1-year and 6-month battle from colon cancer.The whole Philippine nation and the whole world mourned for this leader who fought for democracy from a decade of dictatorial rule.

A simple housewife, after the assassination of her husband Benigno Aquino Jr, soon rose up from her comfort zone and ran for presidency against authoritarian leader Ferdinand Marcos. After a turbulent Snap Elections in 1986, Marcos' closest allies turned their backs and led with Cory Aquino to a peaceful and non-violent People Power Revolution in February 25, 1986. Millions of Filipinos came to support Cory and her fight for the rise of democracy. Eventually, this revolution toppled down the Marcos dictatorship and lifted up the Aquino democracy as she became the first female Philippine president and the first female president in Asia.

The prominent colour that blanketed the Filipino people during this rise of democracy was the colour "yellow" . According to Wikipedia, this colour connotates these words: sunshine, warmth, fun, happiness, age/aging, warning, friendship, caution, slow, cowardice, Mardi Gras, summer, Easter, autumn, East Asians, electricity, liberalism/libertarianism, hope, optimism.
That was the prominent symbol of her love for the nation. Cory wanted the sunshine to fill again the darkness that engulfed the Philippines during the dictatorship. She wanted happiness to show again in every Filipino's faces from a decade of gloom. She wanted friendship to be alive again from the bondages and breakings made during the Martial Law era. She wanted a Mardi Gras where every Filipino will celebrate their regained freedom. She wanted her nation to follow what Jesus has done on the Cross - after the death of freedom during the dictatorship, she wanted to see it rise again and live on forever. She wanted a liberal nation where everyone can speak out their minds. She wanted hope to every Filipino, an optimist nature in every place of the land.

Truly, the LORD really said in His words: "...Behold, I am making all things new." (Revelation 21:5 NASB). Jesus had paid the price for all the sufferings the people had during the Marcos rule, and He used Corazon Aquino to regain the freedom the nation once had and we now enjoy today. I pray that the LORD will give the nation more unity as more leaders will rise up to regain the true destiny of the Filipino nation - SUCCESS.

We will miss you, our dearest leader. Salamat, President Cory.

KENNETH

image courtesy: from Google image search.

My Future Decided

kenneth_porio2005@yahoo.com (Kenneth Porio) — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 09:09:00 +0000

I PASSED THE CMSC 57 (Discrete Mathematical Structures in Computer Science II) FIRST LONG EXAMINATION!

I did not expect that God really worked wonders when I prayed to Him to give me guidance for me to pass this exam which covered topics in Sum and Product Rule, Pigeonhole Principle, Inclusion-Exclusion Principle, Combinations, Permutations, and Probability. Although it's not a high score, but at least I got the passing mark.

For you to know, I was one of, more or less, five passers of this exam, of all the 30 students who enrolled in this class. I mean, it's GOD'S GRACE!

I believe as I seek more of His Wisdom, I will gain more knowledge in this time when I return to where my academic weaknesses resided.

The heart of the discerning acquires knowledge;
the ears of the wise seek it out. (Proverbs 18:15 NIV)

KENNETH

Making Your Own Band

kenneth_porio2005@yahoo.com (Kenneth Porio) — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 08:56:00 +0000

Do you want your own band with your own album cover? It's simple and rockingly fun.

The idea of this blog game/meme is from the blog of one of my college instructors, Mr. John Bengan.

/* Start Copy Here */

To make your own band, follow the steps.

01. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
The first article title on the page is the name of your band.

02. http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3
The last four words of the very last quote is the title of your album.

03. http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days/
The third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover.

04. Use your graphics program of choice to throw them together, and post the result as a comment in this post. Also, pass it along in your own blog to make it more amusing.

/* End copy here */

My band album cover:

As I see it, I can be part of the movement of alternative rock bands who are corporate property investors themselves with music that speak to the business world that we have the power to earn. Corporate business isn't classic anymore, we think. It's the voice of the masses.

What will you name your band?

KENNETH

P.S. Passing to Gagay / Ferizia / Crissy / Tina / Azul

L for LOVE

kenneth_porio2005@yahoo.com (Kenneth Porio) — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 08:02:00 +0000

Let me quote some lines of the essay Sapay Koma, written by Prof. Jhoanna Lynn B. Cruz, Humanities professor of UP Mindanao (who is now my current instructor for AH4 / HUM1: Adventures in Poetry, Fiction and Drama) The essay won the Third Prize in the Essay Category of the prestigious Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards in 2008. The full essay can be read in this link.

...Despite all the tragic relationships I had had with women, I still believed that it was worth fighting for the right of a woman to love another woman. What business did I have getting married to a very young man? And for all the wrong reasons. Must have been oxytocin overdose sponsored by the baby in my womb. Or a planetary alignment exerting mysterious forces on my consciousness. Or, gasp—Love!...

...We didn’t get any gifts, except for a framed copy of 1 Corinthians 13: “Love is patient, love is kind… love does not keep a record of wrongs…”

... I once tried to convince my husband to just rent a gown and tuxedo and then have our “wedding” photo taken so we’d finally get on “The Wedding Wall.” But he has always been the more sensible half of our couple...

...One day, though, a new picture was added to the wall. It was a studio photo of his eldest sister, her American husband, and their baby boy. It wasn’t “The Wedding Wall” anymore; it was now the “Our Children and their Acceptable Spouses” wall. It was their version of the Saussurean signifier. The message was loud and clear – to me and to other people who came to visit...

...I wonder now why it so mattered to me to be on that wall. I guess I felt that after all those years, we had been punished enough for defying the culture. Maybe I actually believed in 1 Corinthians 13. Or perhaps I also needed to be reassured that I was indeed happily married.

This essay reminded me of the story by Manuel Arguilla (How My Brother Leon Brought Home A Wife), in which Prof. Cruz also quoted in the essay (in which we discussed for a whole week). Love in marriage is not an easy thing. It's a matter of how you submit to your partner and to your partner's authorities. However, for the radical Christian such as myself, 1 Corinthians 13 is a manifestation of God's unfailing love - which endures forever. I could attest to myself that quoting the passage isn't bad at all - but taking it by heart requires a pure heart.

Bad relationships are results of unproductive marriages. Bad relationships come from wrong decisions. Love isn't wrong, but to follow how you make love, through God's model, is difficult. However, if you just let God move in your search for your lifetime partner, you will achieve the peace and the joy we deserve, together with your children.

So, let me ask you. Who do you want, a spouse or a lifetime partner?

KENNETH

P.S. My deepest appreciations to Ma'am Jhoanna for her continuing teachings to us. Kudos!

The Best Place

kenneth_porio2005@yahoo.com (Kenneth Porio) — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 01:25:00 +0000

Hi friends in Jesus!

See this picture? Dabawenyos will remember this very familiar hotel in Matina that has been closed years ago. In the so-near future, this place will be remember by Dabawenyos as the place where people serve God with joy.

This old, cranky, creepy (not really) Venee's Hotel, an abandoned hotel in Matina Crossing, Davao City, will be the future site of the G12 Campus, the newest church center of the Lord of the Harvest Christian Community, my local church. God is really good that He given to this church the BEST PLACE for them.

The church has signed the 5-year contract to the owners of the hotel for them to rent the place. However, there are plans that the church will soon purchase the place in this span of 5 years.

Here, the church will have its worship center, lodging rooms (perfect for Encounter Weekend), offices, restaurant, and conference rooms.

Yes, the BEST PLACE has come. Praise GOD!

KENNETH

Freshmen = Potential

kenneth_porio2005@yahoo.com (Kenneth Porio) — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 08:23:00 +0000

It has been four weeks in UP Mindanao as a Junior. I can imagine myself that I have been building up my maturity as a student, as a citizen, and as a whole person. Now in this third year of my stay in UP Mindanao... what's next?

I can clearly see the potential of the new breed of BS Computer Science freshmen. Most of them excel in Math and Science (one of them talks geek...really). Most of them are talented. Most of them are expressive. Most of them are, in most standards, are relatively handsome and pretty. :-) I believe that they can all pass MATH 17 (College Algebra and Trigonometry) like our batch did, I believe, because I can see personalities who are critical enough to think, and with Ma'am Mayang as their teacher, I could attest that they should have F.U.N. in learning Math. (You know, the F.U.N. of SpongeBob SquarePants. LOL)

What's next for these freshmen? Let's see.

KENNETH

(photo credits: McMonde Meliton, Raphael Aguirre)