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My dearest readers,

It’s been a while since I had my weekly posts, and now I am trying to get them going again. There are several reasons for this blog’s discrepancy, and sharing some of them with you may be a good thing to do.

One reason is that I am living in a apartment, and the landlord is one odd fellow. He wouldn’t be happy unless scolding someone. One hobby of his is to cut off my internet whenever he sees fit. Deductive thinking won’t help me figure out when and why my internet would be blocked, since I haven’t really done anything out of ordinary. And each time my Internet access would be cut off for several days.

The bigger reason however is, well, I got a job. I have been a teller for BoA for roughly two months now, and this explains why I have been quite busy lately. On a typical day, I won’t have time to do my things until 8 p.m.. Better yet, Saturday is the most important day at work, for people tent to flood to the bank on this lovely day. This year surely will pass by very fast.

The good news is that after such period of time, I have several new ideas of what to write for this blog. I may start a series telling my story as a teller. Another thing I can do is to tell about interesting people and incidences I have seen while sitting on the bus.

So yeah, this should be it for now. Thank you for sticking with me until now, and I’ll try to keep you entertained as much as I can.

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