I'm not exactly sure if it's the real life name of that airplane, but astronauts in training usually board this plane to simulate gravity shifts in space. The plane would soar then drop repeatedly causing sudden pushes an pulls from gravity (but I'm not really sure if that's how it really works). The first time I heard of the vomit comet was when I was reading Yaginumi Kou's Twin Spica manga.
>Alright, I just did a search on google, the formal name of the Vomit Comet is the Reduced Gravity Aircraft. Huh, the more you know.
Early this morning during our MATH 28 lecture session, halfway during the class as our lecturer was scolding us for our common mistakes on the exercise yesterday, an earthquake occurred. It wasn't strong in terms of destruction (the Mercalli Scale), it just made the projector and the whole hall twitch.
Fast forward to my extra chore this evening...
Last week, our English 2 instructor requested that we watch at least one film featured in the ELBI Invasion.
The ELBI Invasion is sort of a film fest featuring several entries in Cinemalaya. The event started last Tuesday and shall be concluded tomorrow.
Each day, two new films are featured, and as for me I chose the film which fits perfectly on my schedule. Still, I had to sacrifice two hours of my free time this Thrusday.
I watched Short Films which consists of, well, 5 short films each spanning of about 25 minutes.
The films are Onang, Sa Wakas (The end of beginning), Taya, Missing, and Houseband's Wife.
This is my 7th time going inside the D.L. Umali auditorium to either watch a film, theater play or conference.
The theater, for some reason, didn't smell pleasant at all. If I had to describe the odor accurately, I suppose slowly thawing frozen cow manure would fit the description.
Also the cinematography of most of the films weren't well made, despite the interesting direction and story. It is for those two cause that I felt unwell for the majority of the film showing.
I can't handle watching videos from shaking cameras all too well. It was a good thing that I had nothing to vomit around that time.
The first two films made me cringe because of the violence depicted on-screen. Both had good stories, old but still good enough despite its all too common appearance in various media.
The 3rd film was dramatic, and the use of actual footage in tandem to on-camera footage (like Ben Afleck's Argo) was brilliant.
By the time the fourth film was showing, I lost interest because of the bad cinematography and uninteresting plot. I regained my interest at the fifth film, Houseband's Wife. While it applies the "found-footage" type of cinematography, it didn't quite catch that feel found in Paranormal Activity (most of the scenes are through Skype/Webcam). It had the typical overseas worker story with their partner left at home.
It didn't had that much content in the plot, it only served as humor to at least send the audience on a good note. But all of the five short films does feature true to life events that makes you wonder just what kind of people pollutes this country.
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