Tuesday, December 19, 2006

Fastest Elevator in The World


I couldn't believe it. Fastest Elevator in the world is at Taipei 101. 1010m/min. And wow talk about pimping da' ride! Pretty girls guard the elevators while they speak in fluent Mandarin basic overview of the speed we were riding at and once u unboard, you're greeted by more pretty girls explaining the ride - hah, but there weren't any to explain the engineering of Taipei 101 and the Elevator. There is a quiet observatory area to watch the 730-ton tuned mass damper- erm, being the geek that I was, spent some time there actually.

Ohyea. Taipei 101 is also where people shop..but I din do any shopping at all there coz everything's way too pricey. The foodcourt there is amazing though. Nothing like the Malaysian foodcourt. In general, as many would know, Taiwanese are very passionate about food.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

The World Fastest Elevator or The World's Fastest Elevator? Sorry, couldn't help myself...hehehehe

tihtahpah said...

shucks..you're right

Anonymous said...

The English signs at the Shanghai Oriental Pearl Tower are atrocious... I guess Taipei 101 is no better... :(

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