Thai restaurant

Today I went to a Thai restaurant with my colleagues. The dishes were quite good! We tried tom yum goong, pad thai, duck basil and yellow curry. Somehow the restaurant was almost empty. I hope the restaurant does not go out of business.

As for work, things are not going very well. I have so many things which that I do not feel like doing! Some problems are too difficult for me to attack! But I wanna believe that I am making a gradual advances. uhhh...

(NOTE: They always say not to start a sentence with "but," but it's OK for casual writing like this.  Additionally, it's just fine to say "I am making gradual advances," but we might more often say "I am making gradual progress" or "I am gradually progressing.")