Food - Dynasty Mooncakes @ 30% off !

As friends and loyal customers of Tang Court, we are offering a 30% discount to you for purchase of all Dynasty mooncakes as with previous year (please print out this email and present it to the sales staff if you are buying from our outlets at CK Tang or Tangs, Vivocity or Tang Court Restaurant to enjoy the discount).

Freshly baked hand-made Dynasty mooncakes were completely sold out before the end of the promotion period. So please place your orders early to avoid any disappointment this year. Complimentary delivery to one location in Singapore for order of 10 boxes and above.

www.tangcourt.com.sg

Health - Medical Science

World's first full face transplant man appears on TV

BARCELONA (AFP) - – A Spanish man who underwent the world's first full face transplant appeared before TV cameras on Monday for the first time since his surgery in March.

"Friends, I want to thank the hospital coordinators, the entire medical team, the family of the donor and most of all my family who are supporting me these days," said the 31-year-old, who was identified only as Oscar.

The man, speaking just before checking out of hospital, spoke with considerable difficulty and could not close his mouth and his face appeared swollen.

He reportedly suffered injuries in a shooting accident five years ago.

He wore a blue scarf which hid scars on his neck and his hair was combed foreward to hide scars on his forehead which doctors say will be fully concealed in the future.

A team of about 30 experts carried out the transplant on March 20 at Barcelona's Vall d'Hebron hospital on the man, who could not swallow, breath or talk normally due to his injuries from the accident.

During the 24-hour-long operation, he received new facial muscles, skin, nose, lips, a jaw, teeth, a palate and cheekbones, the leader of the medical team that carried out the procedure, Joan Pere Barret, told the news conference.

"Bit by bit he is improving but he nonetheless has a long and difficult road ahead to have intelligible speech like he had before," he added.

While 11 other face transplants have been carried out around the world previously, Barcelona's Vall d'Hebron hospital says they involved only part of the patient's face.

The first successful face transplant was performed in France in 2005 on Isabelle Dinoire, a 38-year-old woman who had been mauled by her dog.

Since then face transplants have been carried out in China, the United States and Spain, which carried out its first such operation in August 2009.

Spain led the world in organ donations in 2009 for the 18th consecutive year, according to the health ministry.

Sports - All in ONE : Impossible?

THINK AGAIN!

Using your own natural body weight, get the effects of high intensity, low impact total-body cardio plus strength training, yoga and mental-focus techniques.

Create lean muscle without bulk and feel invincible.

Anybody can do this for just 30mins a day with this system, which somehow turns Yoga and beginner “Martial Arts” cardio into a series where you duplicate yourself in another plane and then come back and kick your own butt.

It’s very surreal and it's a real treat to sweat and not see stars, unlike usual intense workouts.

Even in 'Downward Dog', your muscles are fully activated (that's YOGA for us beginners!).

Have you ever considered that by the time you THINK about it, you'd have wasted 30 minutes of a chance to lose FAT or WEIGHT....or whatever you want to call it?!

Pets - Dogs : Why Eat Mud/Grass?

More online at www.petsupplyz.com

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.