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I was talking to a co-worker and I realized one thing: I hate clicks.

As in mouse clicks. I surf the web like a bullet train and I want everything right there in front of me and want to do as little as possible (you can call me lazy). If I had it my way, there wouldn’t be anymore “continue reading” links or thumbnails and everything would be laid out right in front of you. And they call me an interface designer. Hah. But of course that can’t happen or imagine the size of websites and not everyone properly saves their images for web!

• Pictures: I prefer seeing pictures resized and laid out nicely in front of me. I HATE clicking on thumbnails— in fact, 95% of the time I don’t. I’d rather wait for big images load which usually isn’t a problem nowadays as long as they were properly exported. Just for the record, my Flickr bar up there is just for aesthetics. I have an online photo album and all the pictures are all laid out vertically (for my viewing pleasure, not yours).
  

  But some thumbnails are okay as long as they are big so I can see what I'm about to click and only open the ones I want to see.

  

  Left/Right navigation arrows makes it a little better, although I still think there are too many clicks. It's also harder to compare images.

  

  Perfect. Everything laid out, simple, clean and all I need to do is scroll. Of course, there is the debate about portfolios needing more 'creativity' but that's for another entry.

• Annoying pagination. Eg: Listing each point of a blog entry on different pages and it’s the worse when the page takes forever to load. WHY? Are you trying to build suspense?! FAIL. AND let’s not forget multiple-paged blog entries.
• Lightbox — It looks good but I can’t stand sites that use it. Is it just me or is it EXTREMELY slow …or the loading icon just makes it seem like it’s taking FOREVER to load?
• Loading Icons. Functional and works aesthetically but I don’t need to be reminded that your page is taking forever to load and it’s ONLY at 19%. I swear, loading bars makes loading seem longer than it actually is.
• STFU I don’t want to “hit the jump.” If a blog has a “continue reading” link, chances are I won’t continue unless it’s an informational post. Sometimes the link is so useless and obnoxious… is your content THAT good for someone to want to see it that bad? And what’s the point of it if there is nothing but one sentence after I “hit the jump?” I applaud you for saving a whole 20px of vertical scrolling though.
• I never use the “back” button on my browser; I’d rather have a billion tabs open. It’s a pretty bad habit because sometimes I’d accidently close a page if I forget to open it in a new tab and I’ll forget which site I was on.

You know how much shit is online and how little time there is?!

What do you prefer in terms of UI?

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I found this extremely old and LONG draft listing all my pet peeves that I probably wrote when I was an extremely angry high school student. I’m a happier person now but I’m still judgemental SO here’s a shorter version.

• Drivers who don’t signal. It’s not that hard to make it a habit!! I signal even when driving on an empty street at 3am.
• Social Smokers. Example: people who only smoke in a club’s smoke pit [just because everyone else is doing it].
• People who talk (or text!) on their cellphones while driving. Thank god they may be banning this in BC. I was reading Facebook feeds the other day and surprised to see so many people complaining about this… at least now I know who the shitty drivers are. NO ONE use their cellphones and drive “normally” and if you think you can, YOU CAN’T.
• Cheap people. It’s one thing to be cheap and wanting to save your money but it’s an entirely different thing to be cheap and mooch off your friends!!
• People who seem to be “looking for” special treatment on their birthdays. Little do they know, no one gives a shit that it’s your birthday. Birthdays aren’t a big deal to me and it just an excuse to party but I usually don’t tell anyone when it is if I can avoid it, in fact, I hate people saying “happy birthday” to me. At work, they use to decorate your cube on your birthday and I use to dread it but now they just send out an email to the team but at least it’s not as conspicuous as balloons!
• Not really a pet peeve, but I don’t understand how some people can be so stupid and naive. If your life is full of drama, you have no one to blame but yourself.

What are your pet peeves?

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• Last weekend, a friend joked that whenever the Canucks lose a game, it’s never the players’ fault. It’s always the fault of a person who didn’t (or did) wear their jersey during the game, or if someone took down their car flags, went to the washroom while the other team has a power-play, ate the last chicken wing, etc. We always need to blame someone but the players. So funny and so true. Oh well, it was fun while it lasted! GO CANUCKS GO (next season)!!
• I hate dancing with other people at clubs (whether it be with guys or girls). I’m often found at the side of the group dancing by myself so I can go at my own beat and I think it looks disgustingly desperate when girls are constantly grinding up with each other.
• When my friends and I were 12, we went to a open house with a fake German accent (we’re Asian) and tried to trick the realtor that we were going to buy the house. We really thought he believed us too.
• It breaks my heart when blogs I use to enjoy to read suddenly turn into an outlet for ugly advertisements and paid posts. PLEASE DON’T DO THIS, MY LOVELY BLOGGERS.
• I’ve been eating like crazy this past week and haven’t been going to the gym regularly because of schedule conflicts. Not the mention that my cube at work is stuffed with chips, chocolate (and all things unhealthy) and my mini-fridge is filled with sugary juices, pop, popsicles (and beer that’s not mine). But guess what? I’M GUILT-FREE! Why live when you’re going to feel guilty about what you eat? I LURVE FOOD.
• What do you find when you Google “chinese honger“?

  
  OMG. Ahahahaha I couldn’t stop laughing!!!
  (Damn I should’ve photoshopped my roots out in that picture.)

• Random Mochi pic:

  

• KOREANS ARE TAKING OVER MY LIFE. You can blame them for neglecting my blog the last couple of weeks.

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