KENNETH PORIO | the blog

Hi, everyone! I’ve been back in Davao since the end of December 2025, after living in Cebu for about 4 years. The past four months have been difficult. I resigned from being a teacher in UP Cebu late last year. I was so difficult to sink in, even today, that I made that decision. Bad experiences, bad decisions, and bad relationships here and there led up to that conclusion that this teaching career was not for me. I was diagnosed last year with mental health issues, which was alongside my diagnosis of type-2 diabetes and hypertension since 2023. Today, I have been regularly on a cocktail of medications that I take every single day. With that, along with the costs of migrating back home, having to spend for medicines totally drained my savings. Yes, while I'm not deep in debt, I am literally broke. I’ve been looking for work, trying to figure things out, and dealing with a lot of uncertainty. I did land a role with a startup, and I’m grateful for that, but I’m also thinking seriousl...

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;        ...

Dear friends, I am so wanting to make this year very special for me. I want my last days of my "minor" years to be far better than what I am desiring right now - that I will make myself worthy to be in this "mature" world. This time, I want to let myself go of my old ways. I'll never again... be childish. be a liar. be stubborn. be a loser. be my family's burden. be immoral. be stupid. be weird. be unaware. be dumb. be mischievous. be unforgiving. be hurt. be drained. be down. be a part of the enemy's plan. be with the world. Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart ; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations. - Jeremiah 1:4-6 After I encountered God, my vision as a Christian became clearer and clearer. I realized that the LORD planned to set me apart from the world even before I was born . I was planned by the LORD to be a good example to the world. I was planned by Him to be Hi...

Dearest friends, Graphics & Myspace layouts The year of our LORD, Two Thousand and Eight, has passed by, and another year has been made history. This year was a year of hopes, failures, friendships, and a deeper relationship to the LORD. Here are all I have experienced in this year. I encountered and passed these subjects in the 2nd Semester while I'm in UP Mindanao: CMSC11, CMSC56, MATH26, SSP1, SSP3, MST2. My blog boosted up its traffic when I joined in Entrecard and other blogging support tools. I won 2nd Placer with a partner during the Computer Science Week's IT Quiz 2008. I earned a little money, in which I used it to buy a UP Centennial Shirt. :-) My blog recieved a few reviews, and made memes and tags for the first time. I joined in the CDSI Community Site on Ning. In the Second Year of my blog, I made extreme changes in it: made a domain, more widgets and services, and then made an identity in the blogosphere. Life became tougher during the summer va...

Stumbled From Gagay : An Angel says, 'Never borrow from the future. If you worry about what may happen tomorrow and it doesn't happen, you have worried in vain. Even if it does happen, you have to worry twice.' 1. Pray 2. Go to bed on time. 3. Get up on time so you can start the day unrushed. 4. Say No to projects that won't fit into your time schedule, or that will compromise your mental health. 5. Delegate tasks to capable others. 6. Simplify and unclutter your life. 7. Less is more. (Although one is often not enough, two are often too many.) 8. Allow extra time to do things and to get to places. 9.. Pace yourself. Spread out big changes and difficult projects over time; don't lump the hard things all together. 10. Take one day at a time. 11. Separate worries from concerns . If a situation is a concern, find out what God would have you do and let go of the anxiety . If you can't do anything about a situation, forget it. 12....

Schooling days will end again, The classes we will leave again; Vacation time is up again, Schooling days will end again! Sounds familiar? It's just like I did in my post last June . But it's the time that classes will end and vacation time is in our doorstep. Also, like I said in that post, I'm here at the Interactive Learning Center (ILC), doing counter duty as a Student Volunteer, and I've been doing this for the past 2 days since a few Student Assistants and Students Volunteers are busy with their Final Examinations. I've been in my duty the whole day up until 7:00 pm, the schedule closing of the ILC GE Computer Room. I've been attending to students needs here in the ILC - printing, returning books, printing, printing and PRINTING! Well, the students around here have to pass A LOT OF DOCUMENTS! U.P. Students kasi, e. The final examinations for this week were SUCH A PAIN! I can't tell if I could pass all subjects for this semester. SSP3 was difficult. M...

In celebration of the Lenten Season, we take a rest from our hardships in life and reflect in them. There we will remember and reflect upon the death and resurrection of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. In joining families observing the Lenten Season, A Stellar Life shares a Family Prayer: GOD made us a family. We need one another, We love one another; We forgive one another, We work together; We play together, We worship together; Together we use God's Word, Together we grow in Christ; Together we love all men, Together we serve our God, Together we hope for Heaven. These are our hopes and ideals, Help us attain them. O God, Through Jesus Christ, Our Lord. Amen. Praying for a peaceful Holy Week, KENNETH Author of A Stellar Life My StumbleUpon Page

Dear friends, It's another exciting week here at UP Mindanao. This week is the Computer Science Week - our week. This week is also the week of Pre-Registration of subject for the 1st Semester of AY 2008-2009. Here are my subjects I took for the following semester of the following year: CMSC21 lec/lab (Fundamentals of Computer Programming) with John Vincent Q. Miro & Prof. Vanessa C. Ramoran CMSC57 (Discrete Mathematical Structures in Computer Science II) with Prof Vanessa C. Ramoran MATH27 (Analytic Geometry and Calculus II) with Mabele P. Malagamba PHYS3 (General Physics I) with Prof. Nilo B. Oponda & Engr. Joseph E. Acosta STAT1 (Elementary Statistics) with Metche Anne C. Casinillo AH2/COMM2 (Understanding Ourselves through Academic Writing) with a NEW LECTURER PE2 BT (Badminton) with Redner D. Palomaria Wee, Sir Miro!... another UPMin ComSci Alumnus dominates our CMSC21 lecture class! In addition, Ma'am Van will cover our CMSC21 laboratory and CMSC57 lectures. Yo...

Gong Xi Fa Cai (Mandarin) Kiong Hee Huat Chay (Hokkien) Kung Hei Fat Choi (Cantonese) In whatever dialect our fellow Filipino-Chinese pronounce these four Chinese characters, these words automatically brings us to our minds that it's the Chinese New Year or the Spring Festival . For those who don't know much about the meaning of these four-charactered greeting, it literally means: "Congratulations and Be Prosperous" Others greet us in another Chinese greeting: Xin Nian Kuai Le (Mandarin) Sin Ni'n Khuai Lok (Hokkien) San Niin Faai Lok (Cantonese) in which it means "Happy New Year" . For the Pinoys, we join them in celebrating the Chinese New Year by joining in their Lion and Dragon Dances, eating "Tikoy" ( "sweet cake" ) or "Nian Gao" ( "year cake" ), the white, sticky and sweet pastry made from glutinous rice that symbolizes " strong and sweet bonds with the family " or " every year higher and hig...

Dear friends, Another bunch of updates here at A Stellar Life. OK, now here's an update from the UPCAT results. I have found another UPCAT passer from Colegio de San Ignacio. He holds student number 2008-57483, and qualified for the BS Architecture program of the Mindanao campus. He is... Leo Angelo O. Gaerlan ! Again, in my last post, the first passer I found was Junah Catmin C. Mindanao (2008-57484). Alright, here now are the list of present and hopefully, future students of UP Mindanao from Colegio de San Ignacio per Batch: Batch 2005: Boji Bote (BA Communication Arts) Paeng Pulgar (BS Architecture, shifted to BA Communication Arts) Batch 2006: Hazel Gamas (BA Communication Arts) Blanche Agunod (BS Architecture) Hans Toreno (BS Food Technology) Batch 2007: Roneo Vermont (BS Applied Mathematics, shifted to BA Communication Arts) Edmund Gemelo, Jr. (BS Applied Mathematics) Jan Inez Raya (BA Communication Arts) Richard Von Lao (BS Agribusiness Economics) John Maverick Moradilla (...

Dear friends, More Comments at pYzam.com May you have a blessed time with your family and friends this Holiday season. Had fun with making mag covers through MagMyPic: Create Fake Magazine Covers with your own picture at MagMyPic.com Subscribe to Time Magazine at an 86% discount! UP Mindanao Oblation... Create Fake Magazine Covers with your own picture at MagMyPic.com Subscribe to Seventeen Magazine at a 67% discount! LOVE...by Komsai... that's all for now... more when I'm back in school, perhaps. It has been a great Christmas this year. I had completed the Simbang Gabi (what a blessing), I had a visit to the newly-opened "People's Park" here in Davao City (the site formerly known as the PTA Grounds), had a great time during the KASADYA, UP Min's Lantern Parade, and had a visit back in CdSI for their Christmas party (the free ice cream that the school prexy, Mrs. Virginia Lui, was offering was truly rewarding to the studes! (I just remembered those...