8/17/14, 12:01 AM PDT
Woke up at 5 AM to hit the airport for our flight to Boracay. Found a few neat things while looking around the airport.
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| These are banned in America, right? |
Seeing as they're seldom seen in America, I would've bought a Kinder Egg, but at a dollar each, that price was a bit too steep. No way was I gonna shell out a precious 53 pesos for glorified chokeolate.
You know what I was more willing to spend my money on? This cute little drink with Nata de Coco (the fancy name for "jelly things") floating around in it.
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| The natives call it "Mogu Mogu." |
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| I call it "Effing delicious." |
IT IS SO GOOD. I don't know if it's just because of the jelly bits in it, but I can NOT put this drink down when I take a sip. Since I'm writing this from the future, I'll give you a little foreshadowing by telling you that you'll definitely be seeing more of this drink as my vacation passes.
We flew Cebu Pacific again. Which means I once again volunteered for their piece-of-cake coin purse raffle.
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| Ooh, inverted colors. |
More interestingly? We flew to Boracay in this plane:
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| It's... kinda small, huh? |
Notice the starfish-like things on its wings. Yeah, those are called "propellers." They spin really fast to "propel" the plane forward, hence their name. Then the wings take care of lift and all the jazz, magic happens and the plane's in the air.
You know what's equally magical? This video of the propellers I got in action.
What the heeeeeeeeeck? Why are our propellers all broken? And how are we not falling right out of the sky, requiring us to drop the load? The answer: Wizards.
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| "You got me, Michael." |
Just kidding. It's a weird little phenomenon that happens because of how my iPhone camera works. See, when you take a picture, as hard as your camera tries to, it probably can't capture every pixel instantaneously. Instead, it has to take pictures line by line, rolling in one direction as it does so. This is what is called a "rolling shutter," as illustrated by the gif below.
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| Science! |
This rolling shutter is normally fast enough to not cause any noticeably changes in the picture, but when things move faster than the shutter can roll, you get distortion, as illustrated in this gif below.
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| More science! |
Taking that pinwheel to the real world, since my iPhone's shutter goes from left to right, you get pictures like this:
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| THE PROPELLERS CAME OFF OH GOD OH GOD WE'RE SCREWED. |
In the case of the video above, my iPhone's frame rate (the number of "pictures" it takes per second when it shoots video) exactly matched the propeller's revolutions per second (the number of times it makes a complete spin every second), which made it look like it wasn't moving at all.
Yeah. I'm a nerd. Deal with it.
So when we landed, we immediately looked to see what the island had. And boy, it didn't disappoint. The water was INCREDIBLY CLEAR, it was like liquid glass except it didn't hurt.
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| Woah. |
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"Stretching to infinity, in such a way that the boundary between
sea and sky blurred, the two becoming one." |
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| I'm actually ankle-deep in water right now, if you can't tell. |
