2012 Special and Regular Philippine Holidays
One of the most important parts of travel planning is knowing the holidays. While many people prefer not to go along with other people during these dates, the long weekends are still their only time to relax and explore other places other than office and home. If you are wondering about the 2012 Holiday in the Philippines, then here’s the official list.
SECTION 1. The following regular holidays and special days for the year 2012 shall be observed in the country:
A. 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)
B. Special (Non-Working) Days
Chinese New Year – January 23 (Monday)
Ninoy Aquino Day – August 21 (Tuesday)
All Saints Day – November 1 (Thursday)
Additional special (non-working) day – November 2 (Friday)
Last Day of the Year – December 31 (Monday
C. Special Holiday (for all schools)
EDSA Revolution Anniversary – February 25 (Saturday)
SECTION 2. The proclamations declaring national holidays for the observance of Eid’l Fitr and Eidul Adha shall hereafter be issued after the approximate dates of the Islamic holidays have been determined in accordance with the Islamic calendar (Hijra) or the lunar calendar, or upon Islamic astronomical calculations, whichever is possible or convenient. To this end, the National Commission on Muslim Filipinos (NCMF) shall inform the Office of the President on which day the holiday shall fall.
Link to the Proclamation 295, s. 2011
Winterhouse at Cartimar
Because we live in a tropical country, my honey and I would always take advantage of going to cold places every January. For us, even if we travel only in nearby countries in Asia, there’s still a huge difference in going to abroad during the cold months.
We just booked for HongKong on February 2012 (yeah third time) and I’m looking again for new boots that I could use. I’ve been traveling before and yet it’s only now that I got to discover the Winterhouse. It was featured in Mel & Jeoy and I’m sure I’ll drop by on this shop one of these days! Excited much!
Here’s the link of Mel & Joey’s episode about Winterhouse in Cartimar.
So if you’re looking for customize winter clothes and accessories, you gotta see this place!
Optimize Your Image for Fast Site Loading
Travel blogs are boring without pictures to look at. As a travel blogger, I know the importance of visual proofs that I’ve been to a place. Thus, pictures are essential part of my posts.
However, huge pictures directly uploaded from cameras can cause the slow loading of your blog. Uploading many pictures could also slow you down in finishing a post. I know that most bloggers already know this but for those who haven’t, here are two tips that will make your life easier and your site load faster. These techniques are easy to do and can be done in no time. I always do this.
1. Utilize the Save for Web (Alt+Shift+CTRL+S) in Photoshop. Chances are, most bloggers has basic editing knowledge in Photoshop. If you are, then you might want to save your edited images via File > Save for Web and choose from the optimized results as illustrated below. As you can see, there’s a significant difference in the size of the file. The lesser the file size, the faster your site will load.
2. Use ImageMagick Mogrify to resize all images that you need to upload. All you have to do is install ImageMagick in your local and you can simply use mogify to resize all images in a single folder. So this is very easy if you have hundreds to resize.
The syntax in your command window is:
mogrify -resize 256x256 *.jpg
Imagemagick is also very useful in embedding watermarks and other image editing tasks.
