My grumpy introduction

Oh hello there! I didn't see you, my friends.
You are looking right now at my somewhat grumpy introduction for steemit, have fun reading!

My name is Yan. I was born in a beautiful city Saint-Petersburg, some people may call it a Northern Venice because of the million bridges and channels situated there. There are so many cultural and tourist sites like museums, opera and drama theaters, palaces and manors, parks and monuments. A lot of artists are inspired by its cultural legacy and you can quite often see life street art.

Here are few shots of the city from a talented photographer Stan Z:




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For now i would prefer to keep my anonymity. Probably because I'm an introvert and I like being surrounded by mystery. Please forgive me for my weakness. I will open information about myself gradually, over time.

Because of the desperate craving for a free lifestyle, in recent years I have studied various disciplines that relate to earning on the Internet: web design, programming, different types of marketing, search engine optimisation and so on.
And in the end, I've found myself in a world of crypto currencies, where I learned about steemit thanks to the endless demands of my friends who wanted to boast of their cool blogs and advertised the platform so actively that lured me too.

A lot of people I've met before may wonder how did it happen that I've been here for more than three weeks, but haven't started writing blogs (although most of them probably do not give a crap about it), and that's a great question! That I will try to answer.

For me, this platform is like a social network, where I can just talk with different people, visit my friends' blogs, check out adventurers photoshoots or enjoy various modern works of art. I was amused when I found so many positive people (Even though a small bunch was positive only because of the influence of upvotes, rating system or fear of being flagged to the depth of hell).
And until now, I have not considered it as a way to earn money. If you want to earn money here, you need to daily, constantly post and work on your content, live in the community, be dedicated to your work and focus on quality. Or you can invest a substantial sum of Steem tokens and bluntly upvote yourself, also an option heh.

But after numerous requests, I decided to try and start blogging too. And write a post or two every week. Not for the sake of money, but just for fun. Just be myself and do all sorts of shit, that makes me happy. I recommend not to visit my blog for people with unstable nervous system lol, I have no idea what will come to my mind.

I would like to express gratitude to such people like @exyle, Mark wish you happiness and prosperity to you and your green egg (Bianca i'm joking, you're the one and only). I love your openness and honesty and always drool from your cookin; Elegant and charming @sweetsssj and her unforgettable travels; @kevinwong - yunk is in the house; @hilarski with a lot of support for beginners and tips for trading; @timsaid and his super photoshoots of his travels; @slowwalker with his articles where we can plunge into the unimaginable culture of Korea; @alexbeyman with his magnificent scifi novels; @mammasitta - sleeping tiger; @nonameslefttouse and @meesterboom – I'm laughing my ass off when I read your posts; @steevc, I wish you to get a whole garage of lego cars; @strawhat - Yo-ho-ho a pirates life for me; @gringalicious and her delicious recipes, i'm already hungry just by thinking about it; @mariandavp, @mariossap, @tikotiko, @sofi-m, @onceuponatime - i hope you're having fun in Athens; @chessmonster, @rachelsvparry, @gric, @mayasky, @reddust with their magnificent drawings...

I can go on like this forever, there is still a lot of cool people that I like and make me want to join this community. And a lot more that I don't know about yet. But let's leave it at that.
Thank you for always being there. Thanks to all of you this community is flourishing.

Thanks for reading.

By the way, am I mistaken... or was it Ed Sheeran in the last season of Game of Thrones?