2025 in Review
This year felt so long but also felt like it was short too. Many things happened and it was tough to go on too, but in the end things will turn out fine, hopefully.
…December 2025
Dialog Routes
In a website UX pattern, a dialog is an interruptive piece of element, usually interactive, shown to cover a page while the rest of the page are not interactive. Dialog can be treated like a “page” overlaying the current page. Sometimes, this dialog that got treated like a page gets its own route in the navigation stack. I call this “dialog route”.
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Japan 2025
So I visited Japan again in the later half of October 2025. Unlike my previous trip in 2024, this trip was kind of booked without much plans in mind. Back when booking the flights, I only knew I wanted to explore Kansai region and maybe visit Tottori & Hokuei, the Detective Conan’s author’s hometown. But during the planning, things happened and I followed where the train lines took me and ended up exploring many parts of Chūgoku region. In a way, I loved going to places where it was less travelled by foreign travellers, since I was forced to use my Japanese language skills.
My travel plan started at the least populated region (Tottori) and slowly went to more and more dense areas and ended at Osaka. In the process, I found appreciation to many places that I had never even heard about before the trip, such as Matsue, Izumo, Kurashiki, and Okayama.
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