Money is not the only answer, but it makes a difference. [Barack Obama]
Today the evil that we are fond of has distracted my concentration – it’s all about the money, and nothing more evil than the ability to do a lot of things with just such simple tool.
Money is not the only answer...
Praise to the Lord that I have received a good percentage of increment. It was worth the effort I put for the works I’ve done for the past one year and a half. I sincerely believe that I earned it, but I know I could have done a lot better in work. I do hope that it will be my motivation to work harder in the future.
This morning there were talks – communications via online actually – on the salary adjustments topic. There were buzz that the information has been uploaded on staff personal report page on MyHRM portal. It speaks for itself when it took us here in Bintulu few attempts to access the page – much were greeted with “system busy, please try again” error.
I’ve checked mine. They have made the necessary adjustments as what we have been informed earlier. I had mistaken in assuming that they will be giving the bonus as well – that had to wait, but as for now I should be thankful with what I have gotten.
Work went very slow today. After a chit-chat session and reviewing of documents, it was pretty much nothing on work. It didn’t help much that I was a bit tired by travelling around as well yesterday.
We do hope that it was not a bad omen – our dinner outing after we fetched the manager’s family from the airport ended up with a parking summon after we parked the company car at the side of the road. It looks like they’re pretty strict in enforcing the rules here, or maybe it was just not our day.
On a personal health note, I have been lacking in exercise of quite late, and I can feel that my stamina and metabolism rate is going down the hill, and my weight is going up. It didn’t help much that there’s much of food exploring that has been and will be done in Bintulu, but I should stop eating heavy dinner as a start – but one cannot simple refuse all the delicious seafood. Such a burden in balancing the body and mind.
I should try to pick myself up and work on the given assignment to ensure that it is done as and beyond the expectation of the management. Let’s hope that I can pull it out.
