kirinyan★

About

About this site

Kiri is the name of the person who owns(?) this website (maybe this website owns them, actually). 'Nyan' is the sound a cat makes in Japanese, so the Japanese version of 'Meow'. For some reason Kiri thought this was cute when registering this site in October 2012.

Kirinyan.net was once a personal blog between 2013-2015, with posts imported in going back to 2008. It was subsequently not used for around 5 years, and accidentally taken down sometime in 2020, then languished for 5 years not resolving to anywhere. The domain was also nearly surrendered (auto-renew was turned off at the domain registrar), as a different domain was sought out. (Some bullshit about not liking the descender in the letter y, which made the domain look unbalanced.)

However, a decision was since made to keep the domain name as it has historical and nostalgic value, and it has since been revived and will be used again for a mixture of purposes - reviews, art, and perhaps some personal too.

A photo of a blue cat plushie wearing a navy hoodie over a background of red autumn leaves.

About me

Kiri is based in Sydney, Australia; and often depicts themself online using a blue cat plush that everyone thinks looks like a teddy bear. (But he has a long tail? So he can't be.)

They work in IT-adjacent roles, working with data and often in a customer service capacity. Kiri also dabbles in art and design on the side, and has freelanced in the past doing creative design, web design, and consulting. Kiri has a vendetta against Canva, but a bigger vendetta against Adobe.

Kiri enjoys travel (especially to Japan), bubble tea, reading, watching VTubers (particularly Caspurr Catacini), drawing (on occasion), crafting whatever currently takes their fancy, and banana ball.

Places you can find me