Well then, if you don't know it yet or can't believe it is, here is an infographic of the holidays for 2013 as declared under Presidential Proclamation No. 2012-459:
As you can see, December 24th, which falls on a Tuesday, is a holiday.
That being said, I think a lot of us will be extending their holidays starting December 21 which is a Saturday. Those who still have leaves to spare may take December 23 (Monday), 26 and 27 (Thursday and Friday, respectively), off, all the way to January 1st since December 30 and 31 are also holidays. That's a total of 12 days off, unless some extend it up to January 5, 2014 -- making it a total of 16 -- yes, sixteen!!! -- days. Lucky for those who have a lot of vacation leaves stored up (like us in the government, where our leaves just add up).
Here's a calendar of December 2013 so you can easily see what I'm talking about:
Thinking ahead, here now is a list of the official holidays for 2014, as declared under Presidential Proclamation No. 2013-655. Sorry, as of now they don't have an infographic of it yet and I'm tamad to do one myself, but here's a screen grab from that page :-)
January 31st, which is the Chinese New Year, will usher in a three-day weekend. The next official long weekend is on Holy Week-end (April 17-19). Other than these, I can see a lot of people absent on Fridays when holidays fall on at least three Thursdays: May 1 (Labor Day), June 12 (Independence Day), and August 21 (Ninoy Aquino Day), which is followed by another holiday on August 25.
As for the Islamic celebrations Eid'l Fitr and Eidul Adha in 2014, they will fall on July 28 (Monday, hooray!) and October 4 (Saturday, awww...), respectively. By the way, those dates are based on Philippine time zones, of course.
(Segue: I think I will always remember Eidul Adha because in 2013, it was celebrated on October 15, a Tuesday. It was the day a magnitude 7.2 earthquake struck northern Bohol, my province. The holiday spared more people from getting hurt or killed in public places such as schools, because many were home at 8 a.m.)
Funnily, I find myself focusing on those last five holidays in the end, WHICH IS A YEAR AWAY! Ha. ha. ha. The government has declared both December 24 (Wednesday) and 26 (Friday) as additional holidays, but not the 29th (Monday). What? Yep! That day is as much as sandwiched between holidays as the 26th, but they "forgot" to declare it. :-) If they did declare it, then people would have an official, extra-long nine-day weekend beginning from the 24th to January 1st. Unofficially, people taking the time off from December 20th all the way to January 4, 2014 would have another sixteen-day hiatus.
To get what I'm saying, here's a calendar showing December 2014 :
So... I guess I'll be earning my vacation leaves next year and take that option at the end of 2014. I would have deserved it by then, don't you think so?
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