Donald Glover / Childish Gambino and his white wife

I honestly just wanted to write that I feel sorry for all the hate Donald Glover is getting for having a white wife. It seems like most of the hate is from black people saying he's a hypocrite to make a song like 'This is America' and then dating a white person.
I don't know the true intent of 'This is America' and the true views of Donald Glover. But I know one thing for sure which is that his music was never about 'white against black'. In fact, I dare say the purpose may even have been to unite white and black people against the current state of violence and media treatment of black people in America. It is true that the music portrays black people as being persecuted for the colour of their skin, but I think one of the point of his video and his view is that black people are just people and should be treated like a normal human being.
By pointing out his white wife is doing exactly what Donald Glover was going against. Seeing colour and nothing else. Dehumanization due to the colour of one's skin. What if Donald Glover saw beyond the colour of her skin? What if Michelle White also saw beyond Donald's colour of his skin? Dating someone who's white doesn't make him any less of a black man.

Reply to a youtube video by I hate everything on "I HATE SING (2016)"

I didn't really enjoy the movie but I'm going to actually defend it.
Why? It's a generic money making KIDS movie that was obvious from the beginning to the end.
It's almost like an adult trying to review an episode of Barney the dinosaur.
If the movie had some sort of a pretense of being meaningful or anything more than just simple entertainment yeah, you're right, this movie should have a review and should be labelled shit.
But it doesn't.
We all know Illumination never makes anything of art or meaning.
This was just simple time-passing entertainment for children whose parents are simply tired of their antics, and wants them to be zonked out for a small while watching cartoon animals running around and singing.
The real hate... or cringe should be towards adults; functioning, supposedly intelligent, mature adults who 'thought' the movie was for them just because it had characters that were supposed to be adults too.
There is just one criticism that I want to add that ihe haven't added about the movie.
It's that the movie promotes and plays on the idea of popularity and it's links to success.
I hate it.
A lot of people strives be famous on movies, youtube/internet and think it's a success and it disgusts me. They do stupid shit like the tidepod challenge, fire challenge to become famous.
The movie plays on that idea really well. If you keep trying (to be famous by singing or dancing), you will succeed (everyone will applaud you or admire you).
I know that massage is important for some, but a lot of people that really should be admired, applauded and looked up to, were doing their jobs because they simply wanted to advance humanity. These people include Alan Turing, Edward Jenner, Marie Curie and even Nikola Tesla.
I was going to put this review as a reply on IHE video, but I realised most people will not appreciate what I say.

Nissin Cup Noodles Review

Instead of getting the Umai Box, (since it was like $30 USD, which for about 6 cup noodles seemed a tiny bit pricey) I decided to just learn to be satisfied with random cup noodles at the local asian market. Obviously they have limited variety, but it's enough to say it's quite adventurous.

I'm going to review Nissin Cup Noodles (about $2.50 NZD) one by one so I know what to get next time.

Laksa Flavour: I really enjoyed this one. I guess the price is justified with the actual chunks of dried tofu and dried shrimps. Nissin really didn't cut back on adding content which cheaper brands do. The broth was equally thick and tasty. The laksa flavour was definitely authentic as well. Obviously it's not going to taste like the real laksa soup, but it was definitely had that sweet savory flavour.

5/5



I'll try out another at some stage

Ranting about loneliness and marriage

I know a lot of the new generation shy away from marriage. Seeing the older generation fight over divorce, lengthy process and the growing knowledge and fear that most relationship are not perfect and break up ls are a common occurance make it seem like a no brainer not to get married.
But for some women like me, it is still a longing dream. I've wanted a 'traditional' life. The american dream type of life where i meet a guy, we get married, buy a house, have kids, settle with a few dogs and cats and grow old together. New zealand, whilst its not well known, is the 3rd country in the OECD study to have single parents and nearly one out of four children we have have parents who have split. This statistics might not be fully accurate as i have occasionally seen cases where people lie for more benefit money, but we are also below average on marriage rates. With this culture, finding a man who wants to marry gets a bit more tricky. Usually, in other cultures, parents are eager to push their children onto marriage and we sometimes even see memes about parents asking their children when are they going to marry.
However, there's a bigger reason why i am unsuccessful in my endevours of marriage. I'm simply not mature enough to date a guy who wants to marry. My past 2 relationships were a total train wreck and the last one i had, i initially did not want to date the guy because he was basically a guy without a plan and just lived day by day at his parents place because he couldn't be bothered getting a better paid job. I loaned him a bunch of money for his training course and i'm never going to see that money again. But i stayed with him. He simply convinced me to because... well... we were both lonely. What was supposed to be a temporary fling, became long term. All because i basically gave into my loneliness and depression. This wasn't the first time i had a relationship with someone who basically isn't a husband material. The thing is, my interests are all immature, like playing games and watching anime for reality escape, and i don't have the heart to reject someone easily. Basically the first 'nice guy' who looks alright and who confesses his love for me, i'll fall hard for... it was one of the reasons why i looked into online dating more. Seeing what job the guy does or what kind of interest they have... i was basically hoping to reject the bad apples more easily.
But alas... here i am... i am now currently in a relationship with a guy who's not so interested in those things. He's a nice enough guy and tells me to ask him about these things in a few years, but my previous relationships are an all too powerful lesson and reminder that this... probably won't happen. My depression is getting worse and a part of me wants to give up. I'm trying my hardest to fight off the demon that tells me, 'i might as well just waste away my years and drink myself to death'. It's really just my depression talking, but reality that i need to give up something i have longed for just makes it all hard.

Spiderman preference

Spiderman is one of my favourite superheros along with hulk. I'm a nerdy awkward geek who likes science and i love the idea of science helping the superhero shinanigans.

Marvel has made several remakes of spiderman movies and each seemed to have a different take on the character. Rightfully so since the comic itself which orignated in 1962 took several different origin stories and takes in different universes. I haven't read any of the comics and only watched a couple of the original cartoon so my review will definitely be biased.

Tom Holland is wildly known to follow the original character profile with a modern twist the best and his age and setting seems to be a factor in that. I loved the homecoming movie. It was filled with action, comedy and showed a great portrayal of spiderman dealing with his teenage problems. He had his charms that engaged the audience and i loved how his love interest was not the ditsy portrayed Maryjane.
But despite all this, my favourite spiderman was Tobey Maguire. I'm not even going to mention Andrew garfield, even though he did a pretty good job for his own spiderman universe. It's simply because of a very biased reason. His age. Toby's Peter started off as a university student juggling 2 jobs, one of being spiderman and the other of being a news paper photographer. If i was a teen, i know i would've loved Tom's spiderman better, but oh boy, Toby's spiderman felt real. His struggles resonated with mine. Juggling work and.. well.. depression in my case, and trying to stay afloat on all the bills, love life and friendship... i lived them all. Even the venom movie where Peter just gave up being spiderman and lived life reminded me of when i just gave up. His character was also in someway, more awkward and i loved it. He was the hero that represented us, the low life, awkward and weird people. Tom's character was seemingly meant to be awkward, but he had friends, a social life and in that circle he was normal, fitted in fine. He wasn't weirdly bullied, shunned out or put in a little bubble of his own thoughts, he had friends to excite with and talk with. The thing is, when we look at superheros we always try to see a little bit of us in them. To know that we can be at least a little bit like them. To be heros of ourselves and others. I tell myself to stay strong, smile, be nice and not kill myself because someone needs me. I get encouraged seeing that in superheros. They sacrifice their own lives to save another. I... i know it was definitely there for Tom's spiderman, but the introduction of his character was poor and i felt little of that. From the beginning it made it seem like he was more interested in saving people to be cool and be a part of the avengers. His whole goal throughout the movie was focused on him trying to get Tony Stark to include him in avengers for some larger gigs. Toby's spiderman was more self sacrificing. He had a job, university work and social life to maintain. But he took on a role to use his powers for good. I really liked that about Toby's spidy.

It was also nice how his character build up wasnt as sudden. I understand that in order to include spiderman in the new movies, his introduction had to be quick. His back story wasn't introduced properly and he had less character build up than Toby's. We never saw his uncle being killed because he acted selfish and we never saw why he built his persona. It all just made the character more unrelateable. I felt like i was watching just some bratty attention seeking teen who wanted to be in avengers because it was cool.

All in all, all spiderman takes were great. My preference of Toby is biased and i know it. But i do hope the next spiderman movie will include a lot more real life dilemas that the cartoon spiderman had the Homecoming movie

Kerbal crochet pattern

My friend is currently into watching Kerbal Space Program by Scott Manly









and I thought it'll be great to make him a little kerbal crochet.




Lucky for me, I found a really nice pattern from this website by Amiguruthi. I asked for her permission and I'm now uploading my own variation of the pattern.

Not much has been changed, so I do suggest trying out both patterns :)

Please be respectful that this is Amiguruthi's pattern and you have no permission to sell the pattern and you should ask her before selling an amigurumi made by her pattern!

(The same thing applies for my pattern as well)

The Essentials:

Hook: 3.5mm

Wool: Orange, white, black, yellow and mint green.

Also needed: Black and dark green embroidery thread; white, red and pink felt (depending on chosen face); 6mm safety eyes; detergent doser (from laundry detergent – one of those plastic cup things you measure out the liquid with)

Terms:
CH = Chain
Sc = Single Crochet
Dc = Double Crochet
INC = Increase
DEC = Decrease
BLO = Back Loops Only

Head

In black, magic ring

Round 1: 6Sc into centre of the magic ring [6]
Round 2: INC around [12]
Round 3: {Sc, INC} around [18]
Round 4: {2Sc, INC} around [24]
Round 5: Sc around BLO [24]
Round 6: 18Sc black, 2Sc green,2Sc black, 2Sc green [24]

Round 7: 17Sc black, 7Sc green [24]

Round 8: 16Sc black, 8Sc green [24]

Round 9-12: Sc around green [24]

"If you’re using safety eyes, add them now. They should sit just above half way up the head."

Round 13: {2Sc, DEC} around [18]
Round 14: {Sc, DEC} around [12]
STUFF
Round 15: DEC around [6]

Finish off and weave in tails.

"At this point, you can also add your Kerbal expression. John is smiling (make sure the mouth is quite low down the face) and Glenn is screaming. I used green embroidery thread even around the scream to look like lips. I also added eyebrows on Glenn to increase the scared look. Oh and apparently the accepted Kerbal name is Jebediah, I’m just going with what my customer has elected to call his!"

Body

In orange, magic ring

Round 1: 6Sc into centre of the magic ring [6]
Round 2: INC around [12]
Round 3: {Sc, INC} around [18]
Round 4: Sc around BLO [18]

Round 5-6: Sc around [18]

Round 7: {3Sc, DEC} three times, 3Sc [15]

Round 8: {3Sc, DEC} around [12]

Round 9: {2Sc, DEC} around [9]

STUFF

"Finish off leaving a long tail for sewing. Sew the open neck under the chin of your Kerbal. Embroidery a zip line down the front of his body in black embroidery thread."


Feet and Legs (x2)

In black, CH4

Round 1: Starting in the second chain from the hook, 2Sc, 1Sc, 3Sc in the beginning chain, (moving on to the other side of the chain) 1Sc, 1Sc [8 - 4 per side]

Round 2: INC around [16]

Round 3: Sc around BLO [16]

Round 4: 4Sc, 4 DEC (in BLO if you want more of a flat boot that I did), 4 Sc [12]

Round 5: {Sc, DEC} around [9]

Change to orange in the last stitch of round 5

Round 6-8: Sc around [9]

Change to yellow in the last stitch of round 8.

Round 9: {Sc, DEC} around [6]

STUFF

"Finish off leaving a long tail for sewing. Sew in place at the bottom of the body (make sure you get your feet the right way round – they’re slightly oval and you want them long ways forward)."

Arms and hands (x2)

In orange, magic ring

Round 1: 6Sc into centre of the magic ring [6]
Round 2: {sc, INC} around [9]
Round 3: Sc around [9]
Round 4: {sc, DEC} around [6]
Round 5-9: Sc around [6]

"Finish off leaving a long tail for sewing. Flatten the closed end slightly and stitch it flat (around round four or five). Stuff, and sew in place on the body."

Thumbs (x2)

In orange, CH3

Row 1: Starting in the second chain from the hook, Sc along [2]

"Finish off leaving a tail for sewing. Sew to the bottom of each flattened hand, slightly to the front of your Kerbal."

Helmet (optional - I have yet to make the helmet so this is just a direct copy and paste from her website)

Firstly, find one of these:


Credit: Good Housekeeping

Mine was more blocky than round, but that’s ok. The following is a guideline only, since your doser will probably be a different size to mine.

In white, magic ring

Round 1: 6Sc into the centre of the magic ring
Round 2: INC around [12]
Round 3: {Sc, INC} around [18]
Round 4: {2Sc, INC} around [24]
Round 5: {3Sc, INC} around [30]
Round 6: {4Sc, INC} around [36]
Round 7: Sc around BLO [36]
Round 8: Dc around both loops [36]
Round 9: 20 Dc STOP. Ch2 and turn. [20]
Round 10: 20 Dc STOP. Ch2 and turn. [20]

"Insert your plastic cap into the work now. Repeat row 10 as many times an needed to reach the bottom of your cap, then instead of stopping at the end of your 20 Dc, CH16 and join to the beginning of the round with a Slip Stitch."

Round [11]: {4Sc, DEC} around [30]
Round [12]: DC around BLO [30]

"Finish off and weave in the tail. Make sure your plastic cap is positioned within the work so that you can see through it clearly at the front (so you can’t see the measurements if it has them printed on). Secure around the edge of the face panel using a glue gun (optional)."

"Cut two long strips of red felt and glue them across the top running backwards down the helmet. Cut two shorter strips of red felt and glue them to the sides."

"Pop your helmet on your Kerbal and we’re almost finished."

Backpack (This I have also yet to make... been a very busy week)

"Or I suppose it’s actually compressed oxygen really.

In white felt, cut a cross shape as shown below:





Sew this up the edges to create a cube shape. Stuff it slightly before sewing up the final edge.

In black, Ch 10 (approximately – check on your own Kerbal).

Sew one end on the chain to the bottom corners of your backpack facing your Kerbal’s back, and the run the chain around the arms and sew to the top corners of your backpack facing your Kerbal’s back to create straps.

Kerbals finished and ready to be splattered on the moon!"

Star vs. the Forces of Evil review

It's depressing to know that I've grown up. Well I'm depressed regardless of that fact, but that's not necessarily the point.
Adults have an awful lot of responsibility on their plate and part of it happens to be cleaning up the mess children make and dealing with children's episodes. In this case, there seem to be a lot of mess and a lot of episodes. Gone are the days where I can just see the fun side in shenanigan and tom foolery. All I can see is an annoying child who creates havoc wherever she goes.

When I got into Steven Universe by a recommendation from someone, it lead me to searching for more animations with a similar light hearted cartoon with some deep plot behind it. The first cartoon I've come to love next was Gravity Falls. Then when I finished watching that, I searched for my next fill and Star vs. the Forces of Evil came to my attention. I've often seen short clips of it on 9gag and other social media and it seemed alright so I gave it a go.

Star is annoying, compulsive, uncaring (except for some selected people of her interest it seem. Then it's not even 'caring', it borderlines into 'obsession') and just idiotic in general.
There's a lot of partying and sexualisation which I find weird as well.

I think this person summarises why I hate the show so much pretty well http://beachcity.proboards.com/thread/275/star-forces-evil-plain-sucks