Riyan's Blog

To my tita's who still read this blog, Happy New Year po!

A lot of things are going to change in the next couple of months and papa Arnold decided to start with my blog. Starting today, I will be sharing this blog with my soon to be born little baby brother. Yipee!

Anyway for updates on what's going on in my life. Please visit our family's Multiply site.

By the way, mama Sharon and papa Arnold have already decided what to name my baby brother and his name will be - Adrien Shane. His nickname would...you guess it right - Riyen. That explains the change of this blog's title to R Squared.

That's it for now....=)

As a growing kid, I rarely have time to blog anymore. There are so many things happenings right now with my life, our family's life and all.

Stay tune for some changes on this blog!

Aside from all those adventures and misadventures....I've had the longest road trip of my life...can you imagine hanging out with your papa and mama inside your car for 10 long hours of travel to the north?....I did!..Our destination....Ilocos region!

It was a looong hot trip...so when we reached Fort Ilocandia, I badly needed to take a dip...!




Resting on top of the hill in Cape Bojeador....


Yes, I was in Pagudpud!


At Calle Crisologo....

If you want to see more pictures of Ilocos...visit papa Arnold's travel blog....he posted some great shots of Ilocos there! You will surely love his shots...(hehe...love your own)

Till next time!

Whoa! It's been a long time since the last post. I think it's time for an update. Sorry, mga tito's and tita's I've been, or rather my papa arnold has been soooo busy with blogging lately that he can't find the time to update this blog anymore (How I wish I'm old enough to make my own post, but don't worry, that time will come in a few years from now!).

Anyway, here's what I've been doing the past couple of months...

On Saturdays, it's either I'm attending badminton clinics under the tutelage of tito Lloyd Escoses (I wish!)....


Attending a Baptismal celebration....



Attending Birthday parties....


Fooling around with Jolibee....


Hanging out at the Manila Ocean Park....


Chillin' out in Fontana Water Park


to be continued.....

It's only February and we already had our second road trip for the year. This around, we drove (actually Papa was the only one who did this, as he was the designated driver) 3 long hours all the way from our house in Antipolo to Calatagan Batangas. Our destination this time was Ricky Reyes' Golden Sunset paradise resort!

Last Sunday, my parents woke me up again as early as 4:00 am, hmm actually I was the one woke them up not knowing that they are planning to embark on yet again another road trip. We left our place at around 6 am and drove for an hour to Tagaytay City. We stopped by our favorite place in Bag of Beans for a very nice breakfast.

After that, we proceeded towards the direction of Nasugbu. We passed by the road the leads to Calaruega church and head straight towards the direction of Catalagan. It was a good long two hours drive before we reached Golden Sunset Resort.

We reached the resort at around 10:30 am. The sun was already up and about. And so we quickly dive into the pool to freshen up. Mama and Papa both enjoyed watching me have fun in the pool.

I really wanted to stay longer in the pool but mama was worried that I might lose my fair skin complexion so we had to get out of the pool, just in time for LUNCH!




Lunch was at Golden Sunset Resort's Cucina de Oro, a small place submerged on water with a nice view of the Beach.









After lunch, we rested for a bit at a nearby shack with a refreshing breeze of cool fresh air and a magnificent view of fishpond.







Then it was time to go home. We dropped by our usual pit stop somewhere along SLEX to have a dose of Starbucks coffee and some chocolate goodies.

Twas another road trip. It was tiring and yet oh so fun!

Summer came early for us. Last week, Papa booked a cottage in Balai-Laiya in San Juan Batangas. It was a pretty place and the cottage where we stayed for overnight was a few steps away from the beach. And that day, papa introduced me to swimming on salt water! At first I was afraid, but I knew nothing could happen to me when my papa and mama were around so, after a few moments, I actually find swimming on the beach, well -- FUN!



I had so much fun that I didn't want to leave the water anymore. I feel like, I was......like Little Melody! (Ariel and Prince Eric's little darling!)














I'm looking forward to our next Beach adventure! I want to swim and sing like the little mermaid again....!











For more photos of my first beach adventure -> click here.
And papa also made a write-up about Balai Laiya resort -> paradise Philippines
And here's a nice treat from my mama -> watch little melody and prince eric on the beach!

In behalf of my papa Arnold and Mommy Shawie....I would like to greet all the loyal readers/visitors of my blog a Happy Happy Christmas!!!!

It's just that time of the year when everybody is shopping like my mom...what can an innocent kid like me do?...But to follow my mommy...:-)


At the Fun RanchAt Tiendesitas...



I wonder where we will be shopping next? Divisoria perhaps?

Yey! It was Chasmo's first time to visit the U.P. Sunken Garden. And surely, he had fun. In fact, he was sooo having a good time that daddy got tired holding his chain. So, we had to leave the place at once because daddy was getting irritated already. But, it was fun really!

Last Friday was my 2nd birthday. Yes, I've been living two full years of happy and active life! Thanks to my mommy and daddy and my lola who've been taking care of me for the past two years! I love you three. Here are some photos of my "not so grand" birthday celebration with some close family relatives.The following day, at around 6:00 am, I awoke somewhere along North Luzon Expressway with my daddy driving while I sit comfortable on my mommy's lap. I learned that we are on our way to Baguio Cityyy!

It was a long 6 hour drive to paradise Philippines' summer capital. But it was fun wathching my mom and dad alternate on driving our car.

Finally we reached Baguio. It was cold and rainy that weekend. We just stayed in our room in Burnham Suites the whole afternoon, then had dinner at Cafe by the Ruins, our favorite resto!

The following day (Sunday) we woke up early and had a cool family walk at Burnham Park. There many people at Burnham Park that day but I enjoyed running and walking amidts the cool weather.

Then after eating breakfast, we went to Mines View Park. I had a picture taken with this giant dog.

After Mines View Park, we proceeded to Omai Khan, a mongolian resto to meet up with my friend Jo-Lo and his parents, Ninong Nick and Tita Tina. The 'rents were all happy to catch up with each other lives while Jo-Lo and I busied ourselves exchanging innocent glances once in awhile.After lunch, we went to Camp John Hay for the 'rents to have coffee at Figaro. The four of them had fun watching me and Jo-Lo play with these yoyo given by Ninong Nick. Then we proceeded to the butterfly garden, where an old insisted to put the butterflies on the different parts of our body. Everybody had their chance except for Jo-Lo who cried out loud when the butterflies were put on his shoulder. Hehehehe.

Then it was time to part ways with Jo-Lo and his parents. At the back of our minds, we were asking when do we get to see each other again?

It was a fun vacation for me, my daddy and mommy. It was great to spend time with them minus the hassles of our daily lives. Would you believe that daddy wasn't able to get online for 2 days?!! Good thing was, he was still normal then.

Now, I'm looking forward to our next Baguio trip. Daddy promises to bring us back there before the year ends. Yipeee!

If you got a mama and a papa who are both "gala", you'll often find yourself having your Sunday breakfast in as far as Tagaytay. That's what we did last Sunday. But before having breakfast, we had to stopped by Taal Vista viewing deck for some photo ops!

Meet the new member of our family --- Chazmo!
He is a 3-month old Basset Hound puppy which papa found on some online forum for pet. Chazmo has bee living with us for a week now. It's been a wacky and chaotic week for all of us as Chazmo started to rock our world.

So in the coming days, watch out as I tell you the adventures of Riyan and Chazmo!

Two weeks ago, we went to Clark Field in Pampanga to look for a new paradise farm but unfortunately we couldn't find it. But while looking for the paradise farm we saw a sign board that says, Nayong Filipino. So papa drove us to the direction as pointed out by the signboard and ended up at the old Clark Expo Center where the Nayong Filipino was built.

I must admit that I didn't pretty much enjoyed the place although I liked their tree house.

Then last Saturday we went to Tagaytay to check out this time a farm theme zoo called Paradizoo. We had our breakfast first at this nice little coffee shop called Bag of Beans. There I had my first taste of real coffee when mama made me sip from her cup.

After breakfast we proceeded to Paradizoo. It was a bit muddy since it was raining the night before. But this did not prevented us from enjoying the place. The best part of our visit was of course my first time to ride a horse! I wasn't afraid then since the horse was actually a mini-horse (it was not a pony as our tour guide said)



I must admit that Paradizoo was not as good as Avilon Zoo and Zoobic. Incidentally Paradizoo is owned by the same owners as Zoobic.

T'was a two weekends of fun and tiring road trips for me, mama and especially papa who never got tired of driving just to make me and mama happy!

For more pictures of our two road trips, check out papa's paradise philippines blog about nayong Filipino in clark and paradise philippines blog post about Paradizoo. :-)

Last Sunday, my mommy, my daddy and my ate Mayan and Kuya Lean went to the Manila International Book. It was mommy and I's first time to go to the International Book Fair. Anyways, there were lots of books! (duh!) at the Book Fair. But my ate and kuya did not buy any book but instead grab themselves a couple of teeny magazines (for ate Mayan) and manga and Ragnarok (for kuya Lean). As for me? Daddy bought me this big book about numbers and stuff. Too bad he didn't buy me the DORA stuff that I was looking at (see the picture).

That's my Ate Mayan wearing the 100% Pinoy Librarian T-Shirt from papa's alma mater, UPILS. hopefully Ate Mayan won't take up Lib Sci when she gets to college :-)

Anyway, it was a brief and yet fun adventure at the Book Fair. Too bad we didn't bump into Ninong Nick and Tita Tina who was also there last weekend.

Last Saturday, mommy and daddy brought me to the birthday party of the daughter of mommy's kababata, tital Aileen. Tita Aileen's daughter turned one and the gave her a grand birthday party at none other than --- Jollibee!!!!

I was so excited to meet the Jolly old bee who I get to watch only on TV



And this is me, my mama, the birthday girl Agatha and Tita Aileen



Of course the encounter with Jollibee wouldn't be complete without the family picture!