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Fashion - Ray Ban : Virtual Mirror

A little while ago something strange started to happen. People all over the world began seeing aviator shapes in unexpected places. Before we knew it, these "Aviator Sightings" were popping up everywhere. So Ray-Ban collected every weird, bizarre and surprising shot they could find and put them on display on their website.



Download the Ray-Ban Virtual Mirror, the new brand 3D technology which permits you to virtually try on the latest Ray-Ban styles.

Sports - Paint Ball

Relieve stress by pelting friends, enemies or gossiping co-workers with colour-filled balls with Beeconomic’s Sweet Deal: $150 gets a group of 6 individual passes for admission, goggles and mask system, paint-gun rental, and 250 paintballs per person at Red Dynasty Paintball Park (worth $299.40). Paintball is a character building team sport that allows players to learn teamwork, gain self-confidence and develop leadership qualities. Decision making skills will be enhanced through deciding which friend you choose to cover in various hues.

This is the most popular package offered for assassin-artists at Red Dynasty: with 250 paintballs per person to immerse you in a fun session of shooting, hiding and capturing the flag. Red Dynasty boasts a field as big as a soccer field with 3 obstacle laden arenas equipped with inanimate shields such as inflated bunkers.

Be sure to wear loose clothing: the paint washes out, but your clothes will be peppered like a childs’ hand painting no matter how gifted a sharpshooter you may be. If you always wished the Matrix was more like a Jackson Pollock painting, 2 hours of pure fun will turn your friends into colourful casualties.

Food - Fruits : Longans

The tree can grow up to 67 metres in height, and the plant is very sensitive to frost. Longan trees require sandy soil and temperatures that do not typically go below 4.5 degrees Celsius (40 degrees Fahrenheit). Longans and lychees bear fruit at around the same time of the year.

The longan ("dragon eyes") is so named (from its transliteration from Amoy) [liong-gan] because its fruit, when it is shelled, resembles an eyeball (the black seed shows through the translucent flesh like a pupil/iris). The seed is small, round and hard, and of an enamel-like, lacquered black. The fully ripened, freshly harvested shell is bark-like, thin, and firm, making the fruit easy to shell by squeezing the fruit out as if one is "cracking" a sunflower seed. When the shell has more moisture content and is more tender (due to either premature harvest, variety, weather conditions, or transport/storage conditions), the fruit becomes less convenient to shell.

Culinary uses

The fruit is edible, extremely sweet, juicy and succulent in superior agricultural varieties, and apart from ingested fresh, is also often used in East Asian soups, snacks, desserts, and sweet-and-sour foods, either fresh or dried, sometimes canned with syrup in supermarkets.

Dried longan, called guìyuán (桂圆) in Chinese, are often used in Chinese cuisine and Chinese sweet dessert soups. In Chinese food therapy and herbal medicine, it is believed to have an effect on relaxation. In contrast with the fresh fruit, which is juicy and white, the flesh of dried longans is dark brown to almost black. In Chinese medicine the longan, much like the lychee, is thought to give internal "heat" (上火).

Potassium Chlorate has been found to cause the longan tree to blossom. However, this causes stress on the tree if it is used over excessively, eventually killing it.