Top 8 Largest Shopping Center / Mall On Earth

Today, we'll travel the world to find out the top 8 largest shopping center / mall on earth, here you'll only see the largest ones, not the most popular, the ones that you've been there for this last years of your life, lol. They're springing up all over Asia, but will they last? Heading out to the mall – isn't that yesterday's way to shop? Not in Asia, where land is cheap and labor costs are low. A building boom has enormous shopping malls popping up in China, Malaysia, and the Philippines, with India expected to jump into the fold soon. While many traditional malls in North America are getting squeezed by a big-box era that includes the likes of Wal-Mart stores, Best Buy, and Target in nearly every county, Asia's rapidly growing economy has spawned a new wave of consumers looking for places to shop and play. Most of them are quite ritzy, too. A pair of Chinese malls that rank as the world's two largest – the South China Mall in Dongguan and Golden Resources Mall in Beijing – include features like wind mills and kids' theme parks. Golden Resources Mall is surrounded by newly built apartments and office buildings.

The Dubai Mall

The Dubai Mall is the world's largest shopping mall based on total area and sixth largest by gross leasable area. Located in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, it is part of the 20-billion-dollar Burj Khalifa complex, and includes 1,200 shops. Access to the mall is provided via Doha Street, rebuilt as a double-decker road in April 2009. Twice delayed, Dubai Mall opened on November 4, 2008, with about 600 retailers, marking the world's largest-ever mall opening in retail history. 


However it is not the largest in gross leasable space, and is surpassed in that category by several malls including the South China Mall, which is the world's largest, Golden Resources Mall, SM City North Edsa, and SM Mall of Asia. The Dubai Mall has recorded a visitor turn-out of more than 60,000 tickets sold for the Dubai Aquarium and Discovery Centre in the first five days, following its opening. The Dubai Mall hosted over 37 million visitors in 2009, and attracts more than 750,000 visitors every week. while in 2010 it hosted 47 million, and saw footfall increase by around 27 percent over 2009, despite the economic crisis.

SM City North EDSA

SM City North EDSA is the largest mall in the Philippines, and the world’s third biggest in terms of leasable area (482,878 square meters). It is operated by SM Prime Holdings, a local holding company in the Philippines, the biggest retail and mall operator in Southeast Asia. Located at the intersection of North and Epifanio Delos Santos avenues in Quezon City, SM City North Edsa opened on November 25, 1985. The original concept offered a variety of tenants and flagship stores (i.e., department store, supermarket, bowling area, a foodcourt, and cinemas). The mall's redevelopment began with the opening of The Block in July 2006, and went into high gear with the launching of newly modernized Annex in December 2008, and the Skygarden in May 2009. The Car Park Plaza was also transformed into a lifestyle center on the same year. SM City North Edsa continues to be a work in progress with the ongoing renovation of the City Center and the development of the North Link. Back in 1985, it was the principal and only mall of its kind in the Philippines with a gross floor area of 120,000 sq m. It was constructed at a very challenging period in the Philippines' political history.

New South China Mall

New South China Mall in Dongguan, China is the largest mall in the world based on gross leasable area, and ranked second in total area to the Dubai Mall. However, it is largely vacant. Unlike other "dead malls", which have been characterized by the departure of tenants, the New South China Mall has been 99% vacant since its 2005 opening as very few merchants have ever signed up.
Dongguan, with a population in excess of 10 million, is located in southern China's Guangdong province, east of the province's largest city, Guangzhou. The mall was built on land formerly used for farming, in the Wanjiang District of the city. The project was spearheaded by Hu Guirong (Alex Hu), who became a billionaire in the instant noodle industry.

The mall contains sufficient space for as many as 2,350 stores in approximately 659,612 square metres (7,100,000 sq ft) of leasable space and 892,000 square metres (9,600,000 sq ft) of total area.
The mall has seven zones modeled on international cities, nations and regions, including Amsterdam, Paris, Rome, Venice, Egypt, the Caribbean, and California. Features include an 25 metres (82 ft) replica of the Arc de Triomphe, a replica of Venice's St Mark's bell tower, a 2.1 kilometres (1.3 mi) canal with gondolas, and a 553-meter indoor-outdoor roller coaster.
Since its opening in 2005, the mall has suffered from a severe lack of occupants. Much of the retail space has remained empty, with over 99% of the stores vacant. The only occupied areas of the mall are near the entrance where several Western fast food chains are located and a parking structure repurposed as a kart racing track. A planned Shangri-La Hotel has not been constructed.

There are many flaws to the mall's location. The mall is located in the suburbs of Dongguan, where it is practically accessible only by car or bus, rendering it unreachable to a large percentage of the public. Dongguan does not have an airport, nor are there highways adjacent to the mall's location.
Originally called "South China Mall", the center was redubbed as "New South China Mall, Living City" in September 2007.
The mall was formerly owned by Dongguan Sanyuan Yinghui Investment & Development, Hu Guirong's company, but a controlling interest in the mall has been sold to the Founders Group, a division of Beijing University.
Academy Award-nominated documentary filmmaker Sam Green made a short film about the South China Mall called "Utopia Part 3: the World's Largest Shopping Mall." The film premiered at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival and was broadcast on PBS's documentary series POV.

West Edmonton Mall (WEM)

West Edmonton Mall (WEM), located in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, is the largest shopping mall in North America and the fifth[1] largest in the world. The mall was founded by the Ghermezian brothers, who emigrated from Iran in 1959. It was the world's largest mall until 2004.

West Edmonton Mall covers a gross area of about 570,000 m2 (well over 6 million sq ft). There are over 800 stores and services and parking for more than 20,000 vehicles. More than 23,000 people are employed at the property. The mall receives 28.2 million visitors per year; it also attracts between 60,000 and 150,000 shoppers daily, depending on the day and season. The mall was valued at C$926 million in January 2007.

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Top 10 Amazing Gadgets Of 2012

It's been several weeks i haven't post anything about technology, now it the best time to make up for it, so i presents to you the top 10 gadgets of 2012, yes it's 2012 already. The gadgets on this list is either the ones coming in the near future or the ones that's already available out there on the market, but could still compete even with the latest coming devices because of its spec or its revolutionize functions. Just take a look around and you'll never regret it.
Now sit back and check out this list of amazing devices coming your way, if you got the buck i must say, because they all surely will dig your pocket deeper than before.


Samsung Galaxy S III

The Samsung Galaxy S2 is less than a year old, and rumors of its sequel are already starting to surface. According to the folks over at Android and Me who were tipped off by some sources, the Samsung Galaxy S3 will be powered by the Exynos 4412: a 32nm quad-core designed with ARM Cortex-A9 cores running at up to 1.5GHz. The chip was recently spotted in the Linux Kernel archives and is supposed to be under testing by Samsung.

The Exynos 4412 is also expected to feature the ARM Mali-T604 GPU which is touted to deliver an up to 5x performance improvement over previous Mali graphics processors and is scalable up to 4 cores. However, we won’t know for sure until the next Mobile World Congress (February 2012) where the Galaxy S3 is rumored to make its debut.
A Galaxy S3 phone with a quad-core processor seems like the next logical step, seeing how Android phones with quad-core processors seem to be what next year is all about but I guess we’ll just have to wait and see.

Apple iPad 3

In 2o12 most of the Business people will have Apple iPad3. It will have a screen resolution of 2048 by 1536 pixels that will be five to six times higher than that of the iPad 2. It has the following Specifications; A5 Processor quad-core ARM Cortex-A9 design, High Definition Screen, Retina Displays with a screen resolution of 960 x 640, LED flash support Camera, Chips, SD card slot

Apple iPhone 5

The Iphone 5 will have half inch longer and wider while becoming thinner as well. The rumoured features of Apple iPhone 5 are S/W & H/W upgrades, iTune Cloud integration, iOS 5, Flash Camera (8MP device (3264×2448 pixel), Retina Display, More Internal memory, mobile Payment Services, Two or three Internal Antennas, Fire proof and Wireless Charging.

Asus NX90

The crew at Asus has now teamed up with audiophiles at the Bang & Olufsen, and the lovechild that has blossomed out of their relationship happens to be a fabulous one to be admired as well as is one of the top 10 amazing devices you should buy in 2012. This is an 18-inch notebook that comes along with side speakers and form factor that is extra-long, as it also unveils a clean metallic design. This device is just fun to use and is more practical as when it comes to its usage.

Kodak PlaySport

The PlaySport has made use of its inherent guts as well as optics, and it also wraps the device up with that of drop-resistant, more durable, waterproof case, which helps as while it gets dragged to different places. This is one of the top 10 amazing devices you should buy in 2012, which has undergone a change in its interface, as the durability has improved by leaps and bounds with the price getting slashed to a purse-friendly range.

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How To Defeat Emerald Weapon In Final Fantasy VII

Here's a top tips for a top game, that is how to defeat emerald weapon of final fantasy vii, you watch players on the web stating they've beaten emerald weapon with omnislash or doing it under 2 minutes or so, well i gotta tell you (although most of you ff fans must be already know) that those claims is either a lie or just pure luck. You see, out of the five “weapons” found throughout Final Fantasy VII (FF7), Emerald Weapon is by far the most difficult to defeat. To take on Emerald Weapon, you need to begin by entering your submarine at Junon. Few encounters throughout the game will ever create such frustration, anger, and suicidal thoughts as those with Emerald Weapon. With a massive attack and ability to hit every member of your team, Emerald Weapon is certainly a foe to be reckoned with.

Defeating Emerald Weapon will be a challenge, so don’t even bother fighting him until Cloud and Vincent are both at least level 70. To make matters worse, the battle takes place underwater and thus has a time limit of only 20 minutes, further adding to the immense difficulty.  You can avoid this, however, by equipping the Underwater Materia, acquired by trading the Guide Book with the Kalm Traveler in the town of Kalm. To acquire the Guide Book, use the materia Morph to kill the enemy Ghost Ship, found in the Junon Underwater Reactor.
The following strategy on how to beat Emerald weapon is effective, though time consuming. This is mostly due to it’s high reliance on summons. For this battle you will need:

• Mime materia
• Underwater materia
• Knights of the Round
• HP Absorb
• W-Items
• Hero Drink x 3

Here is your ultimately preferable set up with other character combination of your taste – Cloud with mime, Vincent with Knights of the Round attached to HP Absorb and W-Item, and another third character, maybe Caith Sith, with Underwater. Emerald Weapon has an attack called Aire Tam (materia backwards), that does damage based on how many materia you have equipped, so beating Emerald Weapon requires using as little as possible. As soon as possible, have Vincent cast W-Item to use two Hero Drinks on Cloud, and then have Cloud use a Hero Drink on himself. It doesn’t matter if Caith Sith dies, but you need to keep Vincent alive for one more turn. On his next turn, have Vincent cast Knights of the Round. After the animation has finished, have Cloud use mime, copying Knights of the Round without using any MP.

The Hero Drinks should keep him alive for Emerald Weapons emarald shot/beam, and the HP Absorb will perpetually heal him back to max. Repeat this process until Emerald Weapon finally goes down.  DON'T break the chain of summoning for anything, it could be changed to reviving a team member or using a limit break. As you are planning to use other character combination, remember the strategy still must revolve around Hero Drinks and Knights of the Round. Once you killed Emerald Weapon, you will achieve an Earth Harp, which you can trade to the Kalm Traveler for the Master Magic, Master Command, and Master Summon Materia.

That is a lot to miss, now go back to your FF7 times and start the game with the printout of this tips of how to defeat emerald weapon of final fantasy vii in your hands, and all is ready ^_^  

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Top 10 Salad Toppings Technique

It's foody time ^_^, here is the top 10 salad toppings technique for you. Although it all comes back to your own taste in picking the best toppings for your salad, it is always better to have more combinations to try than none, right? People are always getting bored easily when it comes to daily activities, especially with foods, we can't blame them, that's what makes them human anyway. So, there's no hurting by providing everyone with more and more selection of foods, if you were thinking the way i think, then this is the perfect place for you, keep on reading.

OK, so summer is approaching very quickly and most of us are turning our attention to getting in shape in time for bathing suit season. At this time of year, salads become our friends. We turn to them for their delicious lightness, for a quick bite and for their tried and true body shaping qualities.

But uninteresting salads can make for a very dull meal and a very unhappy eater. And if you don't top a salad the right way, you are going to very hungry, very quickly.

So here's the top ten salad toppings to turn your salads from boring to delightful! Some of these tips are useful for eating salads at restaurants and others are for homemade ones. If you decide to create homemade salads and bring them with you to work, you may want to try those new salad plastic containers that hold the salad in one part and the dressing in another. That way your salad and salad toppings will be crispy when you decide to eat them.

1. Double the lean protein (turkey, chicken, eggs, fish) add chicken & turkey or salmon & eggs. Do this in the event you often feel hungry after your salads. A small more protein may help you go the additional mile to keep away from the vending machine in the afternoon.

2. Add beans, like black, kidney, cannelloni, or garbanzo. Beans have plenty of great complex carbs, fiber & protein. They also help to fill you up & keep you that way.

3. Generate your own dressings as salad toppings. My favourite is a combination of orange juice, balsamic vinegar, & Grey Poupon mustard. You can add some olive oil to make it even richer. I like this dressing with spinach leaves.

4. Add some fruit. Fruit can be great salad toppings. It can turn a boring salad in to a sweet sensation. My favorites are: orange slices (fresh or canned), strawberries, blueberries, & pineapple slices (fresh or canned). In the event you are using canned, sugar-free fruit, use the juice to mix in to the salad dressing.

5. Add some hummus, Baba-Ganoush or mashed white beans to your salad or salad dressing. This may sound odd, but it is actually pleasant.

6. Make your own glazed nuts as salad toppings. Dry roast some walnuts or pecans & then add some honey or maple syrup to the pan to coat the nuts. Take them out of the pan & separate them before they cold, so they dont clump. The nuts become a flavorful addition to a boring salad. This is great in the event you have a sweet tooth that you are trying to control.

7. Add cooked diced sweet potatoes or regular potatoes. Dice some potatoes in to squares. Coat them in some olive oil & fresh rosemary & roast them until they are soft. Then toss them over mesclun greens. I like this salad with roasted asparagus spears & sliced eggs.

8. Add apples & pears. Cube up some apples and/or pears & sprinkle these on top of your salad. I like to mix apples & pears with walnuts & have them over spinach.

9. Skip the leaves. Chop up tomatoes, cucumbers, & avocadoes. Sprinkle with salt, pepper, olive oil & lemon juice. Enjoy.

10. Alter up your vinegars & oils. Spend some time in the oil & vinegar aisle at your local health food store. A used vinegar or oil can alter up your dressings & make for tasty salad toppings. Try mixing apple cider vinegar with apple juice & spicy mustard. Or rice wine vinegar with mirin wine (in the oriental section) & orange juice. Another suggestion: toasted sesame oil & rice wine vinegar with orange slices over cabbage greens.

Those are ten of maybe the best ways to make your salad toppings to the top of the world, as in heavens in the sky, haha am i talking nonsense again? lol ok, enjoy this top 10 salad toppings combination ^_^

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