Philippines’ Regular and Special Holidays for 2010
According to Proclamation No. 1841, here are the regular and special holidays for 2010:
January 1, Friday – New Year’s Day
February 22, Monday (nearest to February 25) – EDSA Revolution Anniversary (special holiday for schools)
April 1 – Maundy Thursday
April 2 – Good Friday
April 9, Friday – Araw ng Kagitingan
May 1, Saturday – Labor Day
June 14, Monday (nearest to June 12) – Independence Day
August 23, Monday (nearest to August 21) – Ninoy Aquino Day (special non-working day)
August 30, last Monday of August – National Heroes Day
November 1, Monday – All Saints’ Day (special non-working day)
November 29, Monday (nearest to November 30) – Bonifacio Day
December 24, Friday (special non-working day)
December 25, Saturday – Christmas Day
December 27, Monday (nearest to December 30) – Rizal Day
December 31, Friday – Last Day of the Year (special non-working day)
Upcoming Movies for 2010
I’ve always been a movie addict. I’m looking forward to watch more movies this year. Watch out for these movies:
1. Movie Title: The Book of Eli
Cast: Denzel Washington, Gary Oldman, Mila Kunis, Ray Stevenson, Jennifer Beals
Director: Albert and Allen Hughes
Release Date: January 15, 2010
2. Movie Title: Legion
Cast: Kevin Durand, Paul Bettany, Dennis Quaid, Kate Walsh, Adrianne Palicki
Director: Scott Stewart
Release Date: January 22, 1010
3. Movie Title: Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief
Cast: Rosario Dawson, Logan Lerman, Uma Thurman, Pierce Brosnan
Director: Chris Columbus
Release Date: February 12, 2010
4. Movie Title: The Wolfman
Cast: Emily Blunt, Benicio del Toro, Hugo Weaving, Anthony Hopkins, Geraldine Chaplin
Director: Joe Johnston
Release Date: February 12, 2010
5. Movie Title: Shutter Island
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo, Ben Kingsley, Emily Mortimer, Michelle Williams
Director: Martin Scorsese
Release Date: February 19, 2010
6. Movie Title: Alice in Wonderland
Cast: Mia Wasikowska, Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Crispin Glover, Anne Hathaway
Director: Tim Burton
Release Date: March 5, 2010
7. Movie Title: Clash of the Titans
Cast: Sam Worthington, Ralph Fiennes, Liam Neeson, Gemma Arterton, Alexa Davalos
Director: Louis Leterrier
Release Date: March 26, 2010
8. Movie Title: Date Night
Cast: Mila Kunis, James Franco, Mark Wahlberg, Steve Carell, Olivia Munn
Director: Shawn Levy
Release Date: April 9, 2010
9. Movie Title: Kick-Ass
Cast: Mark Strong, Nicholas Cage, Chloe Moretz, Aaron Johnson, Christopher MIntz-Plasse
Director: Matthew Vaughn
Release Date: April 16, 2010
10. Movie Title: A Nightmare on Elm Street
Cast: Jackie Earle Haley, Rooney Mara, Kyle Gallner, Katie Cassidy, Thomas Dekker
Director: Samuel Bayer
Release Date: April 30, 2010
11. Movie Title: Iron Man 2
Cast: Robert Downey Jr., Scarlett Johansson, Mickey Rourke, Samuel L. Jackson, John Favreau
Director: John Favreau
Release Date: May 7, 2010
12. Movie Title: Robin Hood
Cast: Mark Strong, Russell Crowe, Cate Blanchett, Kevin Durand, Matthew Mcfadyen
Director: Ridley Scott
Release Date: May 14, 2010
13. Movie Title: Shrek Forever After
Cast: Cameron Diaz, Eddie Murphy, Mike Myers, Antonio Banderas, Julie Andrews, Justin Timberlake
Director: Mike Mitchell
Release Date: May 21, 2010
14. Movie Title: Sex and the City 2
Cast: Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Kristin Davis, Cynthia Nixon, Chris Noth
Director: Michael Patrick King
Release Date: May 28, 2010
15. Movie Title: Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal, Gemma Arterton, Alfred Molina, Ben Kingsley, Reece Ritchie
Director: Mike Newell
Release Date: May 28, 2010
16. Movie Title: The A-Team
Cast: Bradley Cooper, Liam Neeson, Jessica Biel, Sharlto Copley, Patrick Wilson
Director: Joe Carnaha
Release Date: June 11, 2010
17. Movie Title: The Karate Kid
Cast: Jaden Smith, Jackie Chan, Taraji P. Henson
Director: Harald Zwart
Release Date: June 11, 2010
18. Movie Title: Toy Story 3
Cast: Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Joan Cusack, Michael Keaton, Whoopi Goldberg
Director: Lee Unkrich
Release Date: June 18, 2010
19. Movie Title: Jonah Hex
Cast: Megan Fox, John Malkovich, Michael Fassbender, Josh Brolin, Will Arnett
Director: Jimmy Hayward
Release Date: June 18, 2010
20. Movie Title: Grown Ups
Cast: Adam Sandler, Maria Bello, Steve Buscemi, Salma Hayek, Rob Schneider
Director: Dennis Dugan
Release Date: June 25, 2010
21. Movie Title: The Twilight Saga: Eclipse
Cast: Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner, Billy BUrke, Ashley Greene
Director: David Slade
Release Date: June 30, 2010
22. Movie Title: The Last Airbender
Cast: Jackson Rathbone, Dev Patel, Cliff Curtis, Nicola Peltz, Jessica Andres
Director: M. Night Shyamalan
Release Date: July 2, 2010
23. Movie Title: Inception
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Ken Watanabe, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Marion Cotillard, Ellen Page
Director: Christopher Nolan
Release Date: July 16, 2010
24. Movie Title: The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
Cast: Nicholas Cage, Monica Belluci, Jay Baruchel, Alfred Molina, Teresa Palmer
Director: Jon Turteltaub
Release Date: July 16, 2010
25. Movie Title: Salt
Cast: Angelina Jolie, Live Schreiber, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Yara Shahidi, Zoe Lister Jones
Director: Phillip Noyce
Release Date: July 23, 2010
26. Movie Title: Little Fockers
Cast: Robert De Niro, Jessica Alba, Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson, Dustin Hoffman
Director: Paul Weitz
Release Date: July 30, 2010
27. Movie Title: The Expendables
Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham, Jet Li, Dolph Lundgren, Eric Roberts
Director: Sylvester Stallone
Release Date: August 20, 2010
28. Movie Title: The Social Network
Cast: Jesse Eisenberg, Rashida Jones, Justin Timberlake, Brenda Song, Andrew Garfield
Director: David Fincher
Release Date: October 15, 2010
29. Movie Title: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1
Cast: Ralph Fiennes, Helena Bonham Carter, Emma Watson, Daniel Radcliffe, Allan Rickman
Director: David Yates
Release Date: November 19, 2010
30. Movie Title: Rapunzel
Cast: Mandy Moore
Release Date: November 24, 2010
31. Movie Title: The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
Cast: Ben Barnes, Skandar Keynes, Georgie Henley, Will Poulter, Eddie Izzard
Director: Michael Apted
Release Date: December 10, 2010
32. Movie Title: Tron Legacy
Cast: Olivia Wilde, Michael Sheen, Jeff Bridges, John Hurt, Serinda Swan
Director: Joseph Kosinski
Release Date: December 17, 2010
33. Movie Title: The Green Hornet
Cast: Christoph Waltz, Seth Rogen, Cameron Diaz, Edward Furlong, Edward James Olmos
Director: Michel Gondry
Release Date: December 22, 2010
34. Movie Title: The Three Stooges
Cast: Jim Carrey, Sean Penn, Benicio Del Toro
Director: Bobby and Peter Farrelly
35. Movie Title: The Rum Diary
Cast: Johnny Depp, Giovanni Ribisi, Amber Heard, Aaron Eckhart, Amaury Nolasco
Director: Bruce Robinson
36. Movie Title: Arrested Development
Cast: Michael Cera, Jason Bateman, David Cross, Alia Shawkat, Jeffrey Tambor
Director: Mitchell Hurwitz
Plants VS. Zombies Music Video
I’ve been addicted playing the PC game, Plants VS. Zombies, and I’ve already finished it.
I did enjoy watching the its music video, watch this:
Joke of the Day: Gotcha Mama
An 11-year-old boy catches a butterfly and pulls out its wings and then kills it. His father tell him:
“As punishment, you can’t have butter for two weeks.”
The next day, the son catches a honeybee and drives a needle through it’s tiny heart. His father tells him,
“As punishment, you can’t have honey for two weeks.“
That night, his mother steps on a cockroach and squishes it dead. The son asks his father,
“Do you tell her should or should I?”
Source: Pulp Magazine
Rick Riordan’s Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief
Percy Jackson is about to be kicked out of boarding school…again. And that’s the least of his troubles. Lately, the mythological monsters and the gods of Mount Olympus seem to be walking straight out of the pages of Percy’s Greek mythology textbook and into his life. And worse, he’s angered a few of them. Zeus’ master lightning bolt has been stolen, and Percy is the prime suspect.
Now Percy and his friends have just ten days to find and return Zeus’s stolen property and bring property and bring peace to a warring Mount Olympus. But to succeedon his quest, Percy will have to do more than catch the true thief: he must come to terms with the father who abandoned him; solve the riddle of the Oracle, which warns him of betrayal by a friend; and unravel a treachery more powerful than the gods themselves.
Japsy told me that the said book will be shown as movie in 2010. I still have a lot of time to read the book before the movie will be shown next year. Here’s the trailer:
Adamson University Yearbook: Adieux 2006
Backstreet Boys – Straight Through My Heart
I’ve always been a Backstreet Boys fanatic. Check out the video of their new single:
FEU wins the 2009 UAAP Cheerdance Competition
Congratulations to all the winners!!! Here are the videos:
First Runner-Up: Ateneo
Flawless performance!!!
Second Runner-Up: UP
I was not that amazed with UP’s performance compared to last year.
I N A
Ina, ilaw ng tahananSa mga anak ay nagpapatahan
Hirap at pagod kanilang dinaranas
Sa gawaing-bahay na ginagawa sa oras-oras
Kapag walang ina, anong mangyayari?
Ang isang tahanan ay mawawalan ng silbi
Wala na ang liwanag na dati’y namamasid
Puro dilim na ang sa ati’y nakapaligid.
Natatangi ang kanyang pagmamahal
‘Di tulad ng iba, ‘di nagtatagal
Kahit siya’y iyong ipagtabuyan
Mananatili pa rin ang nararamdaman
Sadyang ang ina ay isang uliran
Handang magpakasakit ng matagalan
Mga anak niya’y di kayang matiis
Sunod ang lahat ng ninanais.
~ A n q u i m a ~
2009 UAAP Cheerdance Tickets Soldout!!!
I was not surprised at all. It always happens. The demand for tickets increases days before the event. Japsy’s brother from UST also informed us that there are no available tickets for us anymore. Too sad but it’s okay.
While I was checking my blog entry on 2008 UAAP Cheerdance tickets, the comments caught my attention:
Here they go again…people taking advantage of the others’ needs. They might be students or scalpers selling tickets twice or thrice the price. If you are that desperate, you would really grab their offer. It was 2007 when a scalper offered us some tickets for higher price but we didn’t buy it. Scalping is an illegal activity and we were able to witness that time when the police caught the scalpers in the vicinity of Araneta Coliseum.
If you are still looking for tickets, you’ll be lucky enough to find and buy some through website forums, meet students who are selling their extra tickets or negotiate with a scalper (this is not an advisable thing to do). There are also websites or blogs where bidding for tickets happens. Check out LJDiaz’s website:
I really enjoy watching the UAAP Cheerdance Competition inside the Araneta Coliseum because you will feel the excitement of the students cheering for their schools, and the eagerness of the teams to win. I don’t think I will be able to watch it this year because I still don’t have the tickets but I can watch the TV coverage in Studio 23. 
Goodluck to all the schools!!! 
