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Showing posts with label 2012. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2012. Show all posts

28 January 2012

What's in store for me in 2012?


I could not get hold of my brains when the New Year 2012 came. I was so relaxed I literally have nothing to write about the coming year. Or maybe not. Let us just say I have other priorities. LOL. In fact, I have been revisiting this draft again and again, revising it without even making it to the second paragraph.

So many things have happened since Christmas 2011, the impeachment of the Chief Justice among them, but I could not write a longer blog. Because of Facebook and Twitter, my blog has been neglected. Maybe because as we grow older, we want the meat and gist of things and no longer the flowery words? Or I am just too busy working to pay my outstanding debts? Living a life is a reality.

Facebook and Twitter allows me to share thoughts in limited words, therefore giving me time to read and share the real score. I blame them.

Blogging, however, takes time. Yes. Takes time. Blogging a paragraph-long or a single sentence-long is not blogging for me, unlike others. Using Twitter is recommended instead, to save face.

Blogging should be longer than a paragraph. Why? So you can give your readers time to analyze and share what and how you felt on certain issues or products. Especially if you are paid to do blogs. Blog-whoring, I call that. How does it feel to be a whore? LOL. That is why many of you noticed that I lack advertisements here in my blog. I am not here to earn money but to share you my experience. An independent blogger does not need to be forced to like or sell a certain thing to gain "fame" (OMG!) and money. I really hate that! 

Yes, I am babbling, actually, I write what comes to mind. Just to fill in my lack of blogging skills nowadays. I hope bloggers out there are not feeling the same way.

What's in store for me in 2012? I will have that "wait and see" attitude.


01 December 2011

Offical Holidays of the Philippines for 2012

Photo grabbed from brownseo.com
How time flies. The year just started and then comes December. And then before we know it, 2012 will be coming with a bang. In a wink of an eye.

To give us an the idea on how do we spend our vacation again for the next year, that is, budgeting our time to jive with the holidays, the Philippine government issued Proclamation No. 295 also known as Declaring the Regular Holidays, Special (Non-Working) Days, and Special Holidays (for all schools) for the Year 2012. Although the proclamation is mainly a guide for schools, the holidays are meant for everyone.

So here is the official Philippine holiday guide for 2012-

Regular Holidays
  • New Year's Day - January 1 (Sunday)
  • Maundy Thursday - April 5
  • Good Friday - April 6
  • Araw ng Kagitingan - April 9 (Monday)
  • Labor Day - May 1 (Tuesday)
  • Independence Day - June 12 (Tuesday)
  • National Heroes Day - August 27 (Last Monday of August)
  • Bonifacio Day - November 30 (Friday)
  • Christmas Day - December 25 (Tuesday)
  • Rizal Day - December 30 (Sunday)
Special (Non-Working) Days
  • Chinese New Year - January 23 (Monday)
  • Ninoy Aquino Day - August 21 (Tuesday)
  • All Saints Day - November 1 (Thursday)
  • Special non-working day - November 2 (Friday)
  • Last day of the year - December 31 (Monday)
Special Holidays
  • EDSA Revolution Anniversary - February 25 (Saturday)
  • Eid al Fitr and Eidul Adha will be announced as soon as the Islamic community will announce the dates
 If you are doing business here in the Philippines, please take note that some provinces also have their own special holidays. So if you want to transact business in provincial and other local government units, make sure you also know the local holidays.

Meanwhile, plan your holidays now.