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Author: Si’ar Siyu

  • foggy

    in this state
    in-between
    seeing straight
    quite impossible
    everything's hazy
    nothing is clear
    like a wall
    of cotton candy
    needing time
    to disappear

  • Review week 46/2025

    Grateful

    • Regardless of still feeling the effects of the sickness I was able to prepare some posts yet to come. I even wrote a short story.

    Failure

    • Because of me being sick I’m behind schedule with work on my master’s thesis.

    Take Away/Doing Next

    • Reconsidering priorities and reschedule accordingly.

  • beaded Totoro

    “My Neighbour Totoro” is one of my favourite Ghibli films. What I like most about this film is its heartfelt story. The worrying about the mother as well as the disappearance of the younger sister are both relatable situations. Though it is slow paced, the film is filled to the brim with joy and wondrous situations and also has its fair share of excitement.

    In the scene where the younger sister takes a nap lying on Totoro’s belly I have more than once wished for a life-sized Totoro just to do the same. Totoro looks really fluffy and comfortable 🤗

    When I stumbled upon a pattern for a beaded Totoro I just knew I want one. The only drawback: that one isn’t quite big enough for me to lie on 😆

    Source: unknown

  • libido

    unrelenting force
    deep seated urge
    need to devour
    hunger for more
    never staying satisfied
    always searching
    to feel the high again
    only to begin anew

  • haiku in the park

    ding-dong 
    counting the strikes
    twelve o'clock

    — church bells

    purr purr
    ever going in rounds
    pooing everywhere

    — pigeons

  • Review week 45/2025

    Grateful

    • Despite being sick this week I was able to work on my assignments for short amounts of time.

    Failure

    • The effects of being sick with everything it entails.

    Take Away/Doing Next

    • Taking extra care of myself next week since I’m still recuperating.

  • beaded Pokémon: Gastly

    The Pokémon games themselves aren’t really my type of video game. But I like a good challenge and how to bead Pokémon sounds like a lot of fun to figure out.

    So some time ago I’ve done a beaded version of #92 Gastly from generation I. They are a Ghost/Poison type Pokémon and fly around in a cloud of violet gas. The body itself was fairly easy to come up with, whereas the gas was a little bit trickier. So I stuffed some violet fibres in the body, pulled out some of its strands and voilà Gastly got its own gas cloud.

    They are kind of scary, aren’t they?

  • The Lord of Research

    The epic scholarly adventure film trilogy “The Lord of Research” is based on standard procedures in academia:

    Film 1: The Fellowship of Knowledge

    Film 2: The Two Studies

    Film 3: The Return of the Review

    “The Thesis”, a scholarly adventure film trilogy, is a prequel to the much acclaimed “The Lord of Research” film series:

    Film 1: An Unexpected Research

    Film 2: The Desolation of Students

    Film 3: The Publication of Five Articles

    Wikipedia: The Lord of the Rings (film series) and The Hobbit (film series)

  • brain

    fold by fold
    winding through
    a dark space
    like a snake
    picking up everything
    that crosses its path
    needing a lot of energy
    to build and unbuild
    its vast network
    nothing happens
    without its input
    and direction
    constantly talking
    but never listening
    to its own advice

  • Evaluation September/October 2025

    Another two months gone by like the wind, another evaluation time 😀 Let’s have a look at what happened, how it went and what’s next.

    First, a rhyming snail joined as an irregular contributor bringing with them their own set of creative delights.
    Sounds like I’m handing out sweets 😄 Another limerick, anybody?

    Second, due to my study course I changed my publishing routine to Sunday through Thursday. Despite all the assignments and work for my master’s thesis this arrangement works quite well, so I will uphold it for now.

    Third, I’m content with the headings of my weekly reviews, so I will keep them for now as well. At least once a week they help me to look back and reflect on what surrounds me and where I can get support if needed. And yes, they also show what isn’t so great and where potential for improvement lies. Sometimes this is in my sphere of influence, sometimes it is part of the environment.

    In a nutshell, Sundays are for improvement, Mondays through Thursdays are for creativity and a rhyming snail every other day. Sounds like fun, so let’s keep it up for the next two months till the end of December 2025 and then evaluate again 😄