It’s very rare for the Philippines to have a long weekend, with the obvious reversal of the “holiday economics” under the Noynoy Aquino administration. We are now at the start of a long weekend, from 27 to 30 August 2011. Yehey!

[See Full List of 2011 Philippine Holidays.]

For sure many of us already made plans, but the weather is playing the killjoy role. It’s almost a week since PAGASA announced that a lower pressure area has developed into a tropical depression, named as “Mina” (International Name: Nanmadol). No problem then, but the typhoon is still here and has grown stronger, up to Storm Signal No. 4, the highest warning signal.

[See also Typhoon Watch 2011: List of Philippine Typhoons.]

Tough luck (more so for our fellow Filipinos directly hit by Typhoon Mina). Now, what alternative long weekend plans could we have?