The Dawn of the Megatall Skyscrapers

At the dawn of the new millennium, mankind have been racing to show their mark in the world. Traditionally it was the Euro-American countries dominate the skyline. But in recent years a new trend has emerged by the rich Middle eastern conglomerates and new emerging powers such as China and India, they too want to show their supremacy in the skies and literally touch the heavens.

Back in the 80s and 90s, tall skyscrapers were the "in" thing, and american corporations were dominating the skies with 150+ meter towers. However, in the late 90s and well into the new millennium, we welcome the era of the Supertall, beginning with the likes of the Petronas Twin Towers (452m) to the Taipei 101 (509m).

Then, the Chinese came into the race with the Shanghai World Financial Center (492m) and several Supertalls in the pipeline, until the Emirates put everything into overdrive with the Megatall Burj Khalifa (828m) at the turn of the decade. Soon, we'll see the first kilometer high and mile high towers literally scraping our clouds, and who knows far we'd go from there. Take a gander at the Viz below by Venture Software:

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-Zan

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Multi Level Marketing Revealed!!

This entry today could put off some people, especially those who are hardcore in the business we call Multi-Level Marketing or MLM. Of course by no means I'm trying to be critical of this type of commerce (although I have my own stories of vampirical parasites latching on my dear wallet for a few months just to get "bonuses") ,

Its just so happens that I stumbled upon a website called MLM  The Truth, read the contents, and although some of the facts and figures need some work, I felt that its a good source of alternative info for those who are just considering to join an MLM company, halfway in, or even those hardcore upliners to just think a bit on the actual cost it took to make money in this kind of business.

Now again, from these figures I'm not giving a bad connotation to the MLM business as a whole, being an ex-MLMer myself there were good moments and I learned a lot about fishing (if you catch my drift). But if you are new to this concept, maybe you should just take a look at the Viz below just to be little prepared on what's coming.

-Zan

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So I hope nobody was offended, heck you are welcome to laugh. Put some comments there at the bottom for our entertainment, cheers ;)     -FFA

p/s: To get the real dirt, for Malaysians I believe you guys are already familiar with Aidid Muaddib's blog, its partially in Malay, and don't even talk about the truckload of swearing there, but the info is golden.