pay raise - does that affect you?

two months late, finally we are given a raise. but from what seemed like a happy friday morning, the people turned sour-looking just before lunch time. sad to say, i wasn't one of them. no, i didn't get a high raise. i didn't get promoted. i was just not too affected. just because. 

well, okay, i got my reasons. first, because i'm too happy of the idea that i'll be one-loan free (from my several loans) starting march - gosh, i'm so excited that i can start saving! second, i didn't expect a good raise, because if you expect something and you get something else (particularly, less desirable), you'll just end up frustrated and mad - a situation i like to avoid. bad vibes. i don't need them. they eat you alive. and so...yeah, and perhaps, the third reason why i'm cool about this very low  percentage salary increase is because i got a beyond expectation grade - finally - the truth prevailed! and if you wonder why i got a low raise based on a beyond expectation grade? hehe well, i don't care, really. it's up for the company to explain the logic (or the lack of it) in it. ahhaa it's so mind-boggling they deserved to analyze it and explain it to someone critical. the sense of accomplishment alone will make my entire year. call me pathetic for all i care. i'm the biggest loser any employer could ever hire because even for a small amount of money as long as i'm happy with what i'm doing, i'm totally fine. haha! 

well, i got a little secret to stay that way, though. it's not completely contentment, like you probably thought it is. it's by diversifying what i do -  and that means things i do in and outside of work. you see, my day may be consumed mostly by work and the travel hours to get there and home, but... yeah - i'm one of those employees who sneak into the company's T1 line. when i don't have a rush project, i read lots of stuff on wikipedia, and just about everything my little mind flirts at the moment. i also do mini-businesses, where i sell stuff to my colleagues haha i'm such a b**** -  some HR reader might say. But really, it works. I'm not the high-paying kind a worker in this company, and of course, they don't give me high-paying work, so that probably leaves me some time for other things to do - to balance things out eh? what do you think. and yeah, as you can see, i do lots of stuff -  i sew, i draw, i paint faces, on top of being a mom, a wife, a friend, a youtube addict (really? hmmm) ... 

it's a little sad to see my friends vent out their disappointments, frustrations, annoyance in Facebook about how little they got as raise, or as some put it 'tax raise'. but, as i said, bad vibes are not welcome so...