2023 National Holidays in the Philippines

We've now entered the month of November, and aside from Christmas and New Year, the one thing that Filipinos look forward to are national holidays and vacations!

We counted 6 sure long weekend holidays and potentially 2 more if the government declares the sandwich-ed days as holidays!

Regular Holidays
January 1 (Sunday) – New Year’s Day
April 9 (Sunday) – Araw ng Kagitingan
April 6 – Maundy Thursday
April 7 – Good Friday
May 1 (Monday) – Labor Day
June 12 (Monday) – Independence Day
August 28 (last Monday of August) – National Heroes Day
November 30 (Thursday) – Bonifacio Day
December 25 (Monday) – Christmas Day
December 30 (Saturday) – Rizal Day

 Special Non-Working Days
February 25 (Saturday) – EDSA People Power Revolution Anniversary
April 8 – Black Saturday
August 21 (Monday) – Ninoy Aquino Day
November 1 (Wednesday) – All Saints' Day
December 8 (Friday) – Feast of the Immaculate Concepcion of Mary
December 31 (Sunday) - Last Day of the Year

Additional Special Non-Working Day
November 2 (Thursday) – All Souls' Day

Our Version of Metro Manila Map

Here is our take on the NCR map, we believe a lot is happening in Metro Manila and we should all experience it! What do you think?

2015 Official Philippine National Holidays

Less than 2 months to go and we're gonna be welcoming 2015 already. We counted eight (8) long weekends!

• January 1, 2015, Thursday – New Year’s Day (Regular holiday) 
• January 2, 2015, Friday – Additional special non-working day (Special non-working day) 
• February 19, 2015, Thursday – Chinese New Year (Special non-working day) 
• February 25, 2015, Wednesday – EDSA Revolution anniversary (Special holiday) 
• April 2, 2015, Thursday – Maundy Thursday (Regular holiday) 
• April 3, 2015, Friday – Good Friday (Regular holiday) 
• April 4, 2015, Saturday – Black Saturday (Special non-working day) 
• April 9, 2015, Thursday – Araw ng Kagitingan (Regular holiday) 
• May 1, 2015, Friday – Labor Day (Regular holiday) 
• June 12, 2015, Friday – Independence Day (Regular holiday) 
• August 21, 2015, Friday – Ninoy Aquino Day (Special non-working day)
• August 31, 2015, last Monday of August – National Heroes Day (Regular holiday) 
• November 1, 2015, Sunday – All Saints Day (Special non-working day) 
•  November 30, 2015, Monday – Bonifacio Day (Regular holiday) 
• December 24, 2015, Thursday – Additional special non-working day (Special non-working day) 
• December 25, 2015, Friday – Christmas Day (Regular holiday) 
• December 30, 2015, Wednesday – Rizal Day (Regular holiday) 
•  December 31, 2015, Thursday – Last day of the year (Special non-working day) 

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Cool But Creepy: Google Tracks (and Saves) Your Location History

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Do you know that Google Location History tracks your every move via your smartphone? You have to be logged into your Google account and click here to access your history; and this tracking seems to be automatic on every Android phone.

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