've heard that there was this incredible linguist and teacher in China called "Shaun" or "Silverboy".

He studied Applied Linguistics at a leading Australian university and got Honors. He is very versatile by having a degree in fashion also.

I've heard on the grapevine that he was once a hell of an engineer when he worked in construction.

He is also and expert on Asian women and Thai sexual culture in particular.

Anyhow, back to education. I'm sure Silverboy is severely missed every day by his former students in Wuhan and Nanning.

The hallowed corridors of China's fine education establishments are lesser for the absence of this fine individual.

I only got to make the tea on building sites- apart from humping one hundredweight bags of cement up ladders and stuff. Oh and the theodolite. The foreman used to say 'go and get the yuppie(they didn't actually know what a yuppie was) to check things out.' Good fun though, as long as you don't have to do it for a regular living.

Most of us have a lot of respect for SB but I would like to see him return to China and make a success of it. Get paid while you copulate has to make sense. Not that that was a big attraction for me.

Wonder what SB thinks of Dean Martin who was very fashion conscience.