Haha Jay Chou, I don't get what the deal with him is. He mumbles when he sings. On top of that I can't understand much Mandarin so I don't think too highly of his singing lol. Despite not really understanding I used to listen to a lot of Leehom Wang(big fan!) and David Tao though.

Sigh... cultural revolution. If nothing else just this is enough to make me despise the PRC government. When I took some beginners Mandarin courses in highschool, the curriculum specified that Chinese courses are to be taught in the simplified writing system. This frustrated me to no end! Because they were beginner courses, most of the vocabulary were those I knew previously, but I had to learn them again in simplified just so I could read the textbook. In the end I didn't really get much from those classes except for proper pronunciations because all the Chinese newspapers and signboards where I live all use traditional style exclusively ;__; Not to mention IMO simplified style is quite ugly and can be confusing. (and then I'm also learning Japanese and sometimes their variations on writing kanji/hanzi really messes up my Chinese which was horrible in the first place :/)

It's not Yao's fault there are Chinatowns everywhere, his scattered children need them lol