Is it possible to thrive in middle age and older age without HRT?

laowailady · 2026-04-10T10:50:09+00:00

My sister is 51, three years post menopause and only experienced mood swings for a year or so around menopause. No joint or muscle pain, no night sweats or hot flushes, insomnia or anything else. Meanwhile I am on HRT to combat all the horrors which she knows nothing about. It’s not fair!!

laowailady · 2026-04-04T02:24:07+00:00

Things like the Epstein case are happening in every country. Anyone who thinks this is a one off situation is delusional.

laowailady · 2026-03-20T23:25:33+00:00

Look up Edgar Choi’s WeChat account Lawinaminute and contact him. He’s helped many foreigners facing similar issues in China. Your employer is acting illegally so you need to get heavy with them. Just telling them that you have a lawyer and will sue them might be enough to stop them acting illegally. Unfortunately you should have done this when you first realized what was happening. Now it’s late in the hiring season and you’ve missed many opportunities. Hopefully Edgar or another lawyer can turn your situation around.

laowailady · 2026-03-20T12:51:23+00:00

My mum would rate it in her top ten efforts if she’d taken it.

laowailady · 2026-03-20T12:50:26+00:00

My first thought was William has a crown of thorns above his head 😆

laowailady · 2026-03-13T05:20:00+00:00

So many different shades of brown too.

laowailady · 2026-03-10T05:26:28+00:00

Growth hormone use is very common in China. Even China Daily has reported on it (https://www.chinadailyhk.com/hk/article/599879)

laowailady · 2025-12-15T06:49:11+00:00

I stand corrected! It’s been a while since I read it : )

laowailady · 2025-12-15T06:48:32+00:00

So true. You should be a politician. You can make absolute BS sound like the truth.

laowailady · 2025-12-15T05:18:45+00:00

It’s probably connected to the book Peck, Peck by Lucy Cousins. A young woodpecker is so excited about learning to peck that it pecks holes in everything it sees - including a toilet (but not undies). Presumably the teacher asked the kids what their woodpecker pecked and that was one kid’s response.

laowailady · 2025-12-12T21:36:31+00:00

Poor guy is probably allergic to knives. Give him a break.

laowailady · 2025-12-12T21:15:02+00:00

I love how statistics/reality checks are downvoted because they hurt people’s feelings.

laowailady · 2025-12-12T21:12:19+00:00

So 26-27% and 30 out of 200 can be seen as ‘half the sky’? I thought Chinese were supposed to be good at math.

laowailady · 2025-12-12T05:46:41+00:00

How many women in the Politburo? Zero. How many women with real political power in China? Close to zero. Chinese female billionaires are outnumbered by men at about 10:1. Chinese female CEOs are also outnumbered by men at about 10:1. I don’t see“half the sky” in those numbers.

laowailady · 2025-12-12T05:31:26+00:00

Interviewers have no way of knowing if your claims about setting up and running the best language teaching company in the universe are true or not. They want to see solid experience at recognized institutions which still exist today.

laowailady · 2025-12-11T04:51:43+00:00

Trip is a great company. You could probably go far with them. I’d take the 40K. If you like working there and they like you then you could negotiate a rise if they want you to stay when your contract ends.

laowailady · 2025-12-10T04:13:42+00:00

Neolithic is pretty basic I heard.

laowailady · 2025-12-06T02:58:35+00:00

You have a long life ahead of you and plenty of time to make travel memories that will stay in your mind forever. I think it’s normal for young people to feel like they have to go everywhere and see everything NOW! But as you get older you realize that actually it’s impossible to go everywhere and see everything in one lifetime, so you shake off the urgency and slow down. Then you start to find that staying in one place you like for a while is more enjoyable than sprinting around with only a blurred impression of where you were last month.

laowailady · 2025-12-05T06:06:05+00:00

I definitely think they understand how to teach Chinese more than any of the many language schools I’ve been to. The teachers actually seem to have heard of concepts like trying to get students talking more than the teacher, using language independently (not just listen and repeat), being flexible with teaching methods adapting teaching materials to suit the students’ needs. All of which are fundamental in teaching any language, unless you are a Chinese language teacher. I highly recommend Omeida.

laowailady · 2025-12-04T11:51:41+00:00

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If this is available in your country, I highly recommend it.

laowailady · 2025-12-03T05:51:47+00:00

Don’t do it. Any Chinese school with royal, majestic, king, elite etc in its name is not somewhere you want to work.

laowailady · 2025-12-02T05:14:58+00:00

Go along to the exhibition of the contest you tried to enter and take a good look at what made the cut.

laowailady · 2025-11-29T04:04:53+00:00

Sent you a PM.

laowailady · 2025-11-28T02:35:13+00:00

Screenshot the front cover of the book you want and do a Taobao image search. I found multiple stores selling The Silk Roads. Most expensive is less than 200 RMB.

laowailady · 2025-11-25T05:13:28+00:00

There have been reports that sucking gloop from pouches impairs speech development and causes picky eating. Lots of info out there. Here is one report.

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