Holidays In The Philippines 2009

I googled for year 2009 non working holidays in the Philippines in preparation for school vacation. The list below is based on Proclamation 1699 signed in December 24, 2008 by President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo.

Regular Holidays:
April 6 (Monday) – Araw ng Kagitingan (Day of Valor) moved from April 9
April 9-12 (Thursday to Sunday) – Holy Week
May 1 (Friday) – Labor Day
June 12 (Friday) – Independence Day
August 31 (Monday) – National Heroes Day
November 30 (Monday) – Bonifacio Day
December 25 (Friday) – Christmas
December 30 (Wednesday) – Rizal Day
January 1 (Friday) – New Year’s Day

Special Non-Working Days:
August 21 (Friday) – Ninoy Aquino Day
November 1 (Sunday) – All Saints Day
November 2 (Monday) – All Souls Day
December 24 (Thursday) – Christmas Eve
December 31 (Thursday) – New Year’s Eve

Where’s Edsa Revolution from the list? February 25 holiday was omitted from the list. The Edsa People Power Anniversary this year falls on a Wednesday. Last year, I attended Misa Para Sa Katotohanan, I don’t heard any announcement as of this time but I’m planning to hear mass for the celebration.

I wonder if there’s something to celebrate when we are number 1 in most corrupt countries. Or the government is avoiding rallies?I guess, there will be more people now. The hot issue last year was the ZTE-NBN controversy, correct me if I’m wrong but I think issue vanished and another corruption exposed… and another… and another…

Are we there yet?

Puppy Or Hamster?

I prefer puppy. My wordless Wednesday post, Jack Jack’s new born puppies…

Maynilad, Where's The Water?

As of this writing, there’s still no water in Parañaque City. We’re not aware that there will be no water supply until few hours it went off. I could say that our barangay is big enough that a barangay tanod needs to use a megaphone riding in a service jeep, roam around the whole morning to let every household know the news. That Friday morning, there was no barangay tanod at all.

My sister got the news when she was out of the house at 8pm in Friday. OMG! I only have 4 hours to store water to our 2 big drums. My sister told me that the water will resume within 24 hours, then 36 hours (from TV Patrol)… Does Maynilad failed in informing the public? I don’t know. Is this something to do with Malacañang’s order to Maynilad to reschedule water bill price increase that was supposed to be in February?

Good thing that its a weekend, no school day but my kids needs to wear their uniforms tomorrow. We’re lucky in our street that we have a fire volunteer neighbor, he asked his co-volunteers to supply us water. Didn’t Maynilad realized that its almost 48 hours (2 days) that we don’t have water?

For the record, I paid a pedicab driver to fetch us some water so that my kids uniforms can be washed. Fire truck went to our street thrice yesterday and twice today.

LPG Shortage Or LPG Hoarding?

The last time I bought LPG tank was last year, December 15 at 360 pesos. It was again empty and need to be replaced last Wednesday. Would you believe that I can’t find a store to buy one? Some displayed a signboard “NO GAS“.

I went back in Thursday since my Auntie already bought one from my suking LPG dealer. The seller told me that he will sell me the following day. He told me he already promised the limited stocks he had in the store to other costumers. Ok, fine. Another day without LPG will be fine, I guess. I ask him how much so that I know when he deliver the LPG to my home the following day. What? it costs 600 pesos now. I think its overpriced already since I just saw Shell station’s stocks of Shellane LPG at 482 per tank on my way home. I’m using Argas LPG.

Changing my LPG tank would mean buying another set of regulator and LPG tank if I want to. But I’m not sure what regulator to be use on Shellane tank. I assume that the Shellane LPG I saw were for LPG operated vehicles such as taxi and cars. Then when I watched TV Patrol in Friday, Vice President Noli de Castro told DOE (Department of Energy) to tighter watch against traders and hoarders. Correct me if I’m wrong, there were news in the past that LPG tank price will increase in February. I don’t think there’s a shortage, from distributors, traders to small time dealers are hoarding their supplies to wait for official price increase of LPG tanks.

For his part, Energy Secretary Angelo Reyes on Thursday said supply of cooking gas will normalize starting Monday next week with fresh deliveries from oil companies of around 23,000 metric tons.

The LPG Marketers Association, however, warned the problem could last until next month. LPGMA also said prices will go up by P5 per kilogram next month due to the $100-increase in LPG contract price in the world market. - taken here

First, rice shortage. Now, LPG hoarding. Are we there yet? Who’s to blame? Us, the consumers?

Feb. 2, 2009 update: I already bought one for php 625. Do I have a choice?

I'm Back!!!

Just a quick post to update my blog. Its been a month since my last post. Here I am after battling trojan virus, new motherboard, processor and power supply. I missed blogging but I took it as an opportunity to spend more time during the holidays with my family, relatives and friends.

Regarding my last post about Kuya Bong‘s health condition, he was discharged right before Christmas, he’s still recovering at home. Naturally, he had more medicines now including blood thinners and always watching his diet. His doctor advised him not to eat green leafy vegetables that might affect his medicines. I don’t know why but I suggested to research for food he should avoided just like what I did to avoid kidney stones. Thank you guys for all the prayers.

I still have many things to catch up on blogging as you can see I still have Christmas bells here. Cheers.

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