Shanghai - Traffic

Shanghai's traffic is terrible. The drivers are impatient and reckless. Within a journey, I could see few cases of car accidents and ppl quarrelling at the top of their voices. However, some of the taxi drivers were really nice. There was this driver who help introduce to me the various buildings in Shanghai City, and even gave me discount by rounding down the taxi fares (of cos i din accept it).

The most impressive part of Shanghai's transportation system must be the MagLev - the train that does not touch the ground/rail but made use of magnetic forces for propelling. The top speed of the MagLev is 430km/h (the first time i ever travelled at such high speed), and it took only 7min to travel from Shanghai city to the airport, compared to the 40min of taxi ride. The Metro (MRT) is excellent too, almost equivalent to Singapore's MRT in terms of cleaniness, speed but definitely higher frequencies!

Shanghai City's standard of living is pretty much like Singapore - I could not feel much differences. Probably my prev trips made were to those less modernized province (ie. Jilin, Harbin, Luoyang, Zhenzhou, Guangzhou, Hainan), Shanghai is indeed very impressive, much more advanced than the Beijing i visited 6yrs ago. And did i mention that the bill for my hotel room cost about 1600++RMB per nite?

Joi Tsai pretty much sux

Pls pardon me for being crude and rude, but i thought Joi Tsai's singing is really sucky. All along, I know Joi (Cai Chun Jia) may not be a pretty face, but at least she is well compensated by a set of excellent vocals. I always regard her as good singer until one day a friend told me her live singing cannot-make-it manz. I didnt really believe him as she really sound great in her albums.

Alas, the truth was revealed when i happened to listen to 933's "Live ying yue" hour which play only songs that were sung 'live' by the singers. Joi's singing was really terrible! She went flat a few times (something which a seasoned or good singer will not foul) and went breathless just as many times (it shows how weak her breath control technique is). And mind you she was actually delivering a pretty easy song - pei wo kan ri chu. The subsequent tracks were songs sung live by Ah Mei and Kelly Chen, who both could easily put Joi to shame anytime.

Aww... though blessed with good vocals, but i guess her singing prowess pretty much sux.