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Malacañang Palace (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) In celebration of the annual Lenten season (Holy Week), April 5 and 6, 2012 was declared by Malacanang Palace as non-working regular holidays. April 5 and 6 will be celebrated by Catholics as Maundy Thursday and Good Friday respectively. With regards to April 7, 2012 (Black Saturday), it is still unclear whether Malacanang will declare it as a special non-working holiday or not but in the past, that day is usually declared as so. What are your plans for the upcoming long vacation? Let us know via your comments.

Good news to all government employees! President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo approved the proposal to make Wednesday, March 31, 2010 to be a half working day to all government employees . The purpose of this is to allow the employees to prepare for the activities during the long weekend of the Holy Week. For those working in private companies, you will have a normal working day tomorrow. The next holiday will be on next week Friday, April 9. It will be the celebration of the Day of Valor (Araw ng Kagitingan).