Yeah, your system is really strange with the whole un/enrolled deed poll and GRC. In my case it’s pretty obvious what the right answer is because I can’t change my name without changing my legal sex first.

Why does every country without self-id laws have such ridiculous processes? I mean obviously because it’s supposed to be as a difficult as possible for us but honestly, some things are just bizarre.

Because I have to change my legal sex first and then my name afterwards I will get 2 new health insurance cards and birth certificates back-to-back. One with my new sex and my old name, and then the one with the new name. Almost as stupid as your bank account lock-out.

Not always. It depends if the tea is still able to further ferment. I’ve had some oolongs and hei chas that were also decades old, but they became weaker over time. They still developed a nice, antique aroma but lost other ones on the way there.

That’s also why I didn’t really have a lot hope when I bought it because I thought that 50 years were too much and that it would just taste stale. But damn was I wrong on that. The baozhong is definitely not as strong as the pu-erh, not even close, but for a tea that has been green-killed and is just lightly oxidized, the potency of just the smell really stunned me.

I still don’t understand how aging non-fermenting teas works and why this one is so much stronger than the oolongs I’ve had but I take it!