SUNSPOTS come and go, but recently they have mostly gone.

All the little children had come up to the landing outside, to look at the phenomenon of Peepy lying on my bed.

For uninformed visitors, the sight and sound of foreigners belting it out in Chinese might seem bizarre.

The whole thing was so fantastic that nobody knew what to say.

Men, on the other hand, never think of themselves as mysterious or confusing, and we are often at a loss as to why women want to figure us out.