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	     <title>COSMIC - The trippiest story here (Thursday. 5.15.08  5:25 am)</title>
	     <link>http://hmdaswani.nutang.com/comment_78641/</link>
	     <description><![CDATA[Cosmic.... Cosmic... Cosmic...

Astral planes, rock star, super star....

These words shake up my mind while walking through the urban jungle known as Nathan Road, Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong. The weather is cold, and so are the crowd. I am alone and non existent in my gray suit where all languages converge into a blank babble. Noise becomes silent devoid of meaning, like my suit.

Cosmic... Cosmic... Cosmic...

I am trying to walk it off after leaving the subway from Jordan, after having my vegetarian lunch, I have to go to a meeting a few blocks from here.

Cosmic... Cosmic... Cosmic...

The world is shifting as my mental philosophy hits a high eureka note. A little Cosmic moment.

Cosmic... Cosmic... Cosmic...

I am on a ride.

Double twirling now away from a bright kaleidoscope from the urban jungle to black void, acid melts new colors of burnt orange and red around me, nice little trippy lines change and shift colors of dark red, burnt orange, amber, astral blue. Melting beside me as I follow towards the dark tunnel exit.

Astral blue and slower now, drifting in space weightless like a supermodel. This is super... superrrrr.... superrrrr..... superstar, rockstar, just took a rollercoaster corkscrew ride into acid colors now astral hue. This is kaleidoscope trippy. Very Deja vu.

The Cosmic sitar vibe is felt as it is heard. Life is an acid trance that melts into void. I am becoming one.

Cosmic... Cosmic... Cosmic...

All these stars and supernovas, superstars and rockstars, Spin around and see light.

Cosmic light and Sitar vibes.

Tripping the mind out on a new eureka moment. This is a new epiphany, discovery on acid philosophy.

Remember your happiest moment.

Feel that sensation as you see the colors melt away. The world has faded with you and become one, as you feel that happiness, breathe in sandalwood air and feel the cold air, smoky air paused in still blowing through you, now covered in Chinese silk to the color of sunset orange, yet feel naked and free. Feel happiness flow around your face, sending cool bliss. Feel it to the extremities, fingers, toes, tips...


The sitar vibe is playing and you are tripping.

Cosmic... Cosmic... Cosmic...

Take it all and love that new happiness... Feeling the energy flow until the tip of your extremities. You are a weightless supermodel. A rockstar and superstar...

Drift off, blank out and stare to the acid colors melting... Melting... Melting...

The kaleidoscope shows stars infinity multiplied by infinity... supernovas mix with stars and twirl and jive.

To the sitar vibe trippy.

Look through the kaleidoscope back to finity. back to the top of the head of a person wearing a gray suit.

This is eureka philosophy.

The astral voyage towards happiness and bliss.

Cosmic... Cosmic... Cosmic...

I am now heading back to the restaurant for another cup of tea...]]></description>
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	     <title>I am using this now, pretty nifty (Monday. 5.12.08  5:12 am)</title>
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	     <title>You Can Help after all (Wednesday. 4.16.08  11:44 pm)</title>
	     <link>http://hmdaswani.nutang.com/comment_77956/</link>
	     <description><![CDATA[Many of us might have known about SETI @ Home, which was a concept where instead of investing heavily on supercomputers to read and analyze files, they send smaller pieces to all volunteers whose computers will do the computation during its idle time. While this has become popular, it did not really have such a big impact on computer sharing as not everyone really felt the need to volunteer for SETI.

Given the idea being set by shared computing, a website, http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/ , does the same concept of SETI @ home but with a more diverse option of researches we can participate and help.

You may choose to help in AIDS, Malaria, Weather Prediction, Einstein theories, and other different researches.

The potential is amazing. Researches that would have taken decades due to infrastructure and budget limitations can now be distributed to a large array of computers. Our computers, whose processor speed has greatly increased on average compared to 10 years ago, usually wasted on graphics and new browser enhancements, can now be more productive in helping solve different world crisis. It is, in a way, a noble solution that we can join.

It would be believed that if you believe the sincerity of the group and its purpose, and believe on the potential result of different volunteers letting their computers help, then please promote the organization. The more we can help, the faster progress can be achieved in helping the world.]]></description>
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	     <title>Cancer Free Cigarettes? (Wednesday. 2.20.08  2:52 am)</title>
	     <link>http://hmdaswani.nutang.com/comment_76744/</link>
	     <description><![CDATA[Here is one very thought provoking idea, if cigarettes can be made to not become detrimental to health, would it more acceptable to society?

Everyone wants to put down cigarettes due to the health problems that it can cause. This is perfectly logical and understandable. But, with the new developments in gene replacements and biotechnology, in the near future, there might be a chance for cigarettes not to be detrimental to health anymore. It was once brought up that nicotine is not the cause of cancer or other health illness, but the other ingredients are. Cigarettes use fiberglass for its tips, and its tobacco contains carcinogenic ingredients. If these ingredients have been revised, chances are, cigarettes might come with anti-oxidants, vitamin c, and perhaps cancer prevention meds as well.

What would be our reaction to such a situation? Cigarette smokers will definitely try the new cigarette and if it tastes the same, the new cigarettes would be favored over the traditional brands.

How about those who recently quit? If it was for health reasons, they would probably now have an excuse to smoke again, it will make things easier to not quit.

More importantly, what will be the public opinion over healthy cigarettes? It would definitely be illogical for someone to go against the development of healthy cigarettes, as the primary purpose of stopping people from smoking was mainly due to health problems. Would you now let your child smoke if you know it does no bodily harm? Would you let it slide if you do find out your child smokes? If you are a non-smoker who is curious about how cigarettes feel in your body, would you now try it?

What if all we have now developed is a stereotyped impression that smoking is a vice, rather than understanding that the ingredients inside the cigarette is the problem, and not the cigarette itself, that if these ingredients were removed, the cigarette will enjoy its golden days again. Cigarettes were once enjoyed by a greater number of people.

Many tend to take certain core problems (cigarette ingredients that causes cancer) and judge it as a whole (and therefore cigarettes cause cancer) when it might be possible to eliminate the problem, and thus give the product its justice (healthy cigarettes).

What should be imparted is sometimes we tend to let go of the potential of a product because of the core problems that are part of it. There is a good chance to perhaps separate the problem from the product and give it the respect it does deserve.

Some other examples for this would be products made in China. We have all been victims to shoddy products when we actually have failed to realize that we are merely getting what we are paying for. If a Chinese company produces better products but for a higher price, our subconscious will dictate that the quality will still be shoddy because China cannot make good products.

I will leave this point with a slightly open end, with your thoughts now left to make its own reflection. It will be surprising to realize that there are many things in life that has similarities to the idea of healthy cigarettes.
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	     <title>Cigarette Candies (Saturday. 2.16.08  1:15 am)</title>
	     <link>http://hmdaswani.nutang.com/comment_76669/</link>
	     <description><![CDATA[Many of you may remember this during your childhood (up until mine) we used to have candies that look like cigarette sticks. These candies were actually bubble gum, and its casing looks very much like a pack of cigarettes.

My parents never did buy me those packs, but I did get them once when I was young (from my dad's friends or relatives, the origin of where I got it was very unclear, and from what I recall, very irrelevant as well) and found them to be something children of my age would like to get. These packs of cigarette candies would make us feel like we are adults, and respectable, or to another term, even &quot;cool&quot;. My friends got them, there were parties with candies in little paper mache donkeys dangling for its dear life overhead and whoever beats until its innards come out would find a lot of candies (overhead paper donkeys being beaten up are also called Pinatas in the Philippines, given its large Spanish influence on the culture) and this particular type of candy was inside.

I don't want to sound like a nagging mother who might fight for all sorts of &quot;wrongs&quot; in society to be corrected, and only later on realize that it was rather foolish (if ever realized), and it might seem to be hypocritical of me to discuss the next point considering that I smoke.

I was brought up in a culture where smoking is more than just acceptable, but it was also a sign of being an adult, just as much as driving, beer, and comprehending adult jokes. These cigarette candies can further imprint messages in children's heads that this is a teaser of what is to come, try it out while you're young with little cigarette candies.

If we want people to further understand the risks of smoking, and make their decision not based on what their childhood might have embedded on their minds about smoking, then these are the small items that should not even be on shelves.

I am still a firm believer on letting everyone make a choice, and that things will try to correct itself over time, but I believe that if people are properly informed on what message these small items might bring, that they might actually start thinking twice on whether or not that is what they want their child to perceive about smoking or any vice for that matter.

I believe that this should be an important lesson to many parents as well with regards to how certain small things can really change or influence everyone. Take these points into consideration and be the better judge.]]></description>
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