The next Efren “Bata” Reyes?

Bela just loves playing pool with the kids outside our house. Every time she goes out and she sees the kids playing, she will definitely have to have her turn playing with it. She is so cute while she is holding the long pool stick and trying to hit the pool chips. Her lolos and lolas and even her dad really enjoyed watching Bela play pool. And aside from that, she not only enjoys playing pool but she also enjoys identifying all the numbers written on the pool chips. She will identify each one of them by trying to hit it with her long pool stick.

She was really funny. Good thing her photographer dad was able to catch it on camera.

Bela’s First Recital @ Podium

Well almost….

We we’re at Podium last Sunday to do some shopping. We we’re at the third floor when we heard a show at the second floor. When we checked it out, it’s the Multi Arts Program of My Masterpiece School in Libis. A group of kids are performing and Bela was happily dancing and singing with the kids.

.: Bela watching the show from the 3rd floor :.

Howell said that we should go down at the second floor (where the program is) so we will see what Bela would do when she sees the other kids. And when we reached the second floor, Bela immediately joined the kids in front of the stage and continued dancing and singing with them. She really loves to sing and dance. Her Tito Pipit is right, she is really a born performer.

During the last part of the show, the teachers asked the kids to go up the stage. And Bela joined all the kids (who are all students of My Masterpiece) in going up the stage and performed with them as well.

Here are some pictures that Howell took.


I can’t wait for Bela’s first real program at school or for her first recital. I’m sure she will love the spotlight.

Bela’s Favorite Lines

If she wants to change the channel of the TV: “Change channel, change channel!”

If she wants to go out: “Go outside” or “Stand up, wear slippers”

If she needs help: “Help, help, please”

If she wants water: “Water, Water”

If she wants juice: “Juice, Juice”

If she’s hungry: “Eat, eat” or “Milk, milk”

If she wants to go home already when we’re out: “We’re home”

If her lolo, lola or tita is still at our house and she’s sleepy already and wants to go up our room: “Bye, see yah!!”


And Bela really loves to sing. If she sees a picture of a star, she will sing Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star with action. If she sees a bus, she will sing The Wheels on the Bus. She almost has a song for everything that she sees.

Bela’s piano masterpiece

Howell and I had a silent war since the other day. But Bela must have really wanted us to kiss and make up and so she was doing a lot of thing to catch our attention. And so she succeeded since Howell and I were both laughing when we saw her singing while pretending that she is playing the organ.

You can read the whole story about it on my other blog - www.myplanetpurple.com

Counting backwards with Sid

Remember the movie, Toy Story? There is a part there where Sid (the psycho kid) was counting backwards before he launches the rocket to fire Buzz Lightyear.

We we’re watching this movie this afternoon and Howell and I we’re both shocked when Bela counted backwards (from 10 to 1) with Sid. I just stared at Howell in amazement and he was as amazed as I am. OMG, Bela can now count backwards.

Computer 101

Bela just had a crash course about computer hardware from Howell. You see, we bought a new PC yesterday and Howell opened it to connect the DVD burner that I received as a gift from my boss. Being the eager girl that she is, she jump beside Howell and tried checking the open CPU that dad is configuring. And so Bela had her first crash course on computer fundamentals from her dad. Hey it’s never too early to teach computer to Bela, since she is the daughter of two systems administrator. LOL.

See the video below. I had a blast watching Bela enjoyed her crash course.

Bela and the Globe

Bela loves playing with balls. And so when she found my cousin’s globe, she played with it thinking that it is a ball. Then my aunt showed her where Philippines is located in the globe. From then on, every time we give the globe to her and asked her where Philippines is, she will look for it and I was really amazed to find out that she can actually locate it even if Philippines is just a small image in the globe.

Now she can also locate where Australia and China is. My dad just took out my big globe that I used when I was still in high school from their stock room. He said that this will be Bela’s new educational toy. Kids are really so amazing.

She really loves to sing

Singing is really one of Bela’s favorite past time. Just this afternoon, we played with her V-Smile TV Learning system. There is a game there called Alphabet Park where you can select a song from their song lists (I think there are 5-6 songs included) using the microphone attached to the V-smile TV learning system.

One of Bela’s favorite is the Alphabet song and I was able to record on video, using my phone’s camera, while she was singing the alphabet song. I was really proud to say that she already knows most of the letters of the alphabet.