As a former champion runner back in the United Kingdom a few years ago - OK, many years ago - I learned the importance of timing.
I think my iPhone has destroyed my brain. I really do. I used to listen in meetings; now I browse the Internet.
When visiting a foreign country, some people like to visit the monuments, others the restaurants while some want to seek out the natural wonders.
An old proverb says: "Pride goeth before a fall." However, I never really knew what it meant until my trip to the museum.
We entered the courtyard, with its tiny garden area and quaint decorations, and we instantly fell in love with the place.
It was an odd sight - a half-dressed man scurrying round a corner carrying a clear polythene bag of amber liquid.
Such is the dilemma in modern China, where young adults must balance cultural and family expectations with the overpowering desire to blaze their own path.
If elevators work, will you consider climbing to the top of a 330-meter-high skyscraper by leg power?
When my mother visited China at the age of 73, she said it was the first and would be the last time.
Women's faces are often found in the shade cast by the umbrellas they carry on China's sunny days.
An expatriate in China looks at food from a different perspective, and takes part in a challenge that allows him only $1.50 a day for meals.
I want to tell autonomous travelers, who are heading to a place as tourists, not to announce their visit to their friends.