last-minute non-working day

President GMA announced today (July 25) as a non-working day only last Friday. I was so surprised when somebody from our sister company called me to ask if it's really a non-working day today. Being the HR person of our company, I then called Malacañang and asked if what I heard was true. They confirmed it but added that they don't have the memo yet. Heck, I couldn't announce this to our company unless I have a copy of the proclamation. It was already 2pm then and I basically kept on going to the internet site as often as possible of the Office of the Press Secretary to check if it was already downloaded. I also spent so much time in calling the telefax of Malacañang's record division to fax the said proclamation to me since I couldn't download it in their site. And after much effort, I finally got a copy of it at 4pm from their site. Whew! getting a copy of that proclamation was really tiring since it was a last minute thing. Honestly, I didn't really mind doing it because I was so happy to know that we're gonna have a 3-day weekend! I really need a breather after all;) So, what have I done so far in this 3-day weekend?

Saturday
- i went to the parlor early am to have a pedicure
- i invited koksy dates to have lunch at our place and decided to cook his favorite dish, sweet & sour pork...it's my first time to cook this dish so i was kinda nervous if he would like the taste (since he's very critical to other restaurants' taste of this dish)...well, he liked it and thanked me for the hearty lunch he had... he ate so much:)
- kokoy and I headed to Tagaytay for an overnight fun with some of our SFC friends late in the afternoon
-we had a very heavy dinner in the resthouse we stayed in and spent the whole night until the wee hours of the morning chatting and singing ( we brought along a videoke system)

Sunday
- i woke up at around 7am and prepared breakfast together with ate cooky (my unit head in sfc) to the group
- we headed to caleruega after breakfast and did some picture taking and heard mass there at around 11am
- after caleruega, we went to chapel on the hill in batulao, had lunch at carlos' pizza in tagaytay, went back to the rest house to take a nap and get our things, went to Our Lady of Manaoag in Tagaytay, and our last stop was at the Shepherd's place to buy pasalubong... we were back here in Manila at around 6:30 pm...there was no traffic from Tagaytay to Manila...it was great!

Monday
- well, I'm blogging now and kokoy texted me last night that we'll play badminton at 2-4 pm... we would also go to pay a visit to my father at the cemetery since his death anniversary we'll be this coming thursday... we might probably drop by any branch of National Bookstore to buy the book Kokoy needs for his Accounting class in MBA...

.... I hope I could enjoy this last day of this 3-day weekend:)