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                    [Title] => Dad’s Incredible!
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She tugs at his shirt, he tweaks her nose. They run after each other as she squeals in delight. She stops to examine a silver elephant figurine on a low table in the living room, and he pleads with her to let him borrow it. She calls him "Papa," he calls her "Baba" (a term of endearment in Bicolano).

"I think," smiles Presidential son Dato Arroyo, 31, "that fatherhood is a lot of fun. When Evie was born, I gained a playmate!"
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Mrs. Arroyo, who is turning 57 years old in April, broke the good news to the public over the weekend during her campaign sortie in Rosales, Pangasinan.
[DatePublished] => 2004-02-23 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804833 [AuthorName] => Marichu A. Villanueva [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 228002 [Title] => GMA expecting new grandchild [Summary] => There’ll be another baby girl in the Palace next year when Maria Victoria "Kakai" Manotok-Arroyo, wife of President Arroyo’s youngest son Diosdado "Dato" Arroyo, gives birth in late February or March next year.

The proud expectant parents told friends the other night that the baby will be christened "Eva Victoria," after the baby’s paternal great-grandmother former First Lady Eva Macaraeg-Macapagal, and her mother Maria Victoria.
[DatePublished] => 2003-11-15 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135221 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1391760 [AuthorName] => Joanne Rae M. Ramirez [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 206454 [Title] => Elegance, privacy mark Dato-Kakai wedding [Summary] => Presidential son Diosdado "Dato" Arroyo and banker Ma. Victoria "Kakai" Manotok were wed yesterday afternoon in a private ceremony at Santuario de San Antonio at Forbes Park in Makati City.

The wedding of President Arroyo’s younger son was marked with elegance, austerity and privacy. Save for the security detail, the event lacked the political color expected of a presidential wedding, and was reflective of the private nature of the newly wed couple.
[DatePublished] => 2003-05-17 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1645275 [AuthorName] => Paula Nocon [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) ) )
DATO AND KAKAI
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She tugs at his shirt, he tweaks her nose. They run after each other as she squeals in delight. She stops to examine a silver elephant figurine on a low table in the living room, and he pleads with her to let him borrow it. She calls him "Papa," he calls her "Baba" (a term of endearment in Bicolano).

"I think," smiles Presidential son Dato Arroyo, 31, "that fatherhood is a lot of fun. When Evie was born, I gained a playmate!"
[DatePublished] => 2006-06-18 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1391760 [AuthorName] => Joanne Rae M. Ramirez [SectionName] => Allure [SectionUrl] => allure [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 240965 [Title] => Dato and Kakai Arroyo: Love in Full Bloom [Summary] => Love sought is good, but given unsought is even better." These words come from the bard himself, William Shakespeare, and may truly encompass the meaning of real love finding you when you least expect it. Such is the case in the love story of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo's youngest son, Diosdado "Dato" Arroyo and the lovely Maria Victoria Celina "Kakai" Manotok. [DatePublished] => 2004-03-01 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1520319 [AuthorName] => Michelle Katigbak [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 240047 [Title] => Move over, Mikaela; Lola Gloria has a new apo [Summary] => President Arroyo became a lola (grandmother) twice over with the birth of another granddaughter Saturday night, this time to her son Diosdado Ignacio "Dato" Macapagal-Arroyo and his wife, Maria Victoria "Kakai" Manotok.

Mrs. Arroyo, who is turning 57 years old in April, broke the good news to the public over the weekend during her campaign sortie in Rosales, Pangasinan.
[DatePublished] => 2004-02-23 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804833 [AuthorName] => Marichu A. Villanueva [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 228002 [Title] => GMA expecting new grandchild [Summary] => There’ll be another baby girl in the Palace next year when Maria Victoria "Kakai" Manotok-Arroyo, wife of President Arroyo’s youngest son Diosdado "Dato" Arroyo, gives birth in late February or March next year.

The proud expectant parents told friends the other night that the baby will be christened "Eva Victoria," after the baby’s paternal great-grandmother former First Lady Eva Macaraeg-Macapagal, and her mother Maria Victoria.
[DatePublished] => 2003-11-15 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135221 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1391760 [AuthorName] => Joanne Rae M. Ramirez [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 206454 [Title] => Elegance, privacy mark Dato-Kakai wedding [Summary] => Presidential son Diosdado "Dato" Arroyo and banker Ma. Victoria "Kakai" Manotok were wed yesterday afternoon in a private ceremony at Santuario de San Antonio at Forbes Park in Makati City.

The wedding of President Arroyo’s younger son was marked with elegance, austerity and privacy. Save for the security detail, the event lacked the political color expected of a presidential wedding, and was reflective of the private nature of the newly wed couple.
[DatePublished] => 2003-05-17 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1645275 [AuthorName] => Paula Nocon [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) ) )
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