S’poreans, brace yourselves for 7 long weekends in 2017

For those whose 2016 isn’t going well so far, here’s some much needed silver lining.

The Ministry of Manpower has released the list of Singapore’s public holidays for next year.

There is slated to be seven long weekends in 2017, with holidays either falling on a Friday or Monday.

In total, there will be 11 gazetted public holidays for 2017.

Here are the seven dates you have to pretend to be sick take note of.

 

January

Jan. 1 (New Years Day): Sunday, but Monday will be a holiday in lieu

Jan. 25, 26 (Chinese New Year): Saturday and Sunday, but Monday will be a holiday in lieu

 

April

April 14 (Good Friday): Friday

 

May

May 1 (Labour Day): Monday

 

June

June 25 (Hari Raya Puasa): Sunday, but Monday will be a holiday in lieu

 

September

Sept. 1 (Hari Raya Haji): Friday

 

December

Dec. 25 (Christmas): Monday

 

The other non-long weekend holidays are as follows: Vesak Day (May 10, Wednesday), National Day (Aug. 9, Wednesday) and Deepavali (Oct. 18, Wednesday)

 

Top photo via Lenny K Photography Flickr

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- Thet Nyi Nyi