So I'm wrapping up my trip here and if you want to save yourself a thousand bucks, just read my note and its as if you visited here for free. Shanghai has 30 million freakin people and surprisely traffic isn't that that crazy. Its pretty crazy but not 30 million crazy.

Bicycles, scooters and cars dominate the roadways honking their horns. If you could have one penny for ever horn honk, you would be a trillionaire. You honk at everything, lane changes, I'm about to hit you, pedestrians on the road, etc. Traffic isn't that bad because the city is a port so ships deliver goods so you don't see the transport trucks like on the 401 and the subway has expanded from 2 lines to 8 lines in the couple of years. Its amusing that Toronto has worse traffic and its only 10% of Shanghai's size.

Things people don't tell you about China, things aren't that cheap and its freakin cold ! Yes, its weird, but its frozen here. No wonder flights were only $700 coming here.

Taking the subway and bus during rush hour is definitely something to try out just for the sake of it. People line up in the middle of the freaking road rather than the sideway to try to get on and then when the bus comes, its literally like a Backstreet Boys concert where screaming girls are pushing their way to the front. Hey, its only a bus.

Chinese to English words on menu's and signs are always mis-spelled. Took some "glamour shot" photos here which lasted 14 hours in -30 weather. Glamour shots are like the what you see in shopping mall booths taking photos of you in shiny clothing and big hair. Its super popular here. Anyways, I don't recommend taking your glamour shots in a foreign country where no one speaks a word of english. In the editing room, they put "romantic words" on the albums but the translation is pretty bad ... some of them had spelled romantic spelled with a d instead of a t. Now that's romantic.

There's one constant in the world, Starbucks is popular and its expensive everywhere.

So its been snowing a few feet a day in Toronto and I have been shovelling snow and feeling like perhaps the weakest person in the Greater Toronto Area. Then I suddenly realized, I was shovelling snow left handed ! But I am right handed. Was this the reason why I was sluggish with my snow shovelling.

Shovelling snow lefthanded means holding the handle with your right hand and your left hand is on the handle which pushes or shovels the snow. I play sports left handed (hockey, golf) but eat and write right handed. Some would argue, I eat and write better than I play sports so maybe I should do everything righthanded.

I tried shovelling snow for the first time right handed and physically it was easier but mentally tougher as I am used to shovelling left. It was as if I was super unco-ordinated shovelling right handed and snow was flying everywhere but I was less tired.