ADVICE COLUMN: Jayne believes that there are no stupid questions, just exceedingly stupid people who don’t ask questions, fearing that they will, in turn, look exceptionally stupid. So, ask Jayne anything. If she doesn’t know the answer, she’ll find out who does, or has a guess that sounds right. Or maybe she’ll just make up some crass-junk that is so packed full of adjectives, she’ll sound like know what she’s on about.
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PLEASE: Leave a comment and I will write back. I will be posting the Best of the Best Questions on my main blog page.
Where should I get hot pot in brisbane?
ANSWER: What an intriguing question! And the answer is – any self-respecting asiatic individual will declare that the best place to have hot pot, would be “At their house.” No jokes. Hot pot is to be had with friends and family and can be a long and social affair, so many prefer to perform this culinary delight in the comfort of their own abodes.
If an abode of such caliber is not available to you, places outside that I can think of for such eating would be:
CUBE HOT POT: 317 Mains Road, Sunnybank Plaza; Brisbane QLD 4109 {PH. 3219 5775 } Just outside the main shopping center, and opposite Welcome supermarket. This venue is nearly always packed and it’s best to book if you really want to eat here. A little pricey, you can order by “Side Dish” – it is also quite hot and the base soup is usually seething with chili fragments. You’ve been warned.
BEIJING HOUSE: Shop 1, 45 Queen Street, Brisbane QLD 4000 {PH. 3210 0688} Beijing House has other dishes than just their hot pot varieties – but they do have two hot pot dishes on offer – both sitting at $40 a pop for two. Tasty, but side-dish variety is limited: white tofu, wombok cabbage, mushrooms and mung bean noodles. Only.
How do I stop myself from eating so much junk? Uarrghhh!
ANSWER: There are many reasons why we eat so much “junk” and many of them include the “C” word. And that word is convenience. Many a time, we get attacked by Hunger Rampaging and eat whatever we can get our hands on – be it chips from a vending machine, ice-cream at the park or a burger from the suspicious-looking greasy stand at the weekend markets. But short of moving into the wilderness and eating bugs (which I hear are high in protein and fiber – it’s the crunchy bits), I have a few Handy Hints:
1. Don’t buy junk food: This is a no-brainer – avoid buying junk food while shopping for your monthly or weekly groceries at the store. See those Red Spot specials at Woolies? NO. TIM TAMS ARE A BIG NO. EVEN IF THEY ARE $2. NO. THIS WEEK ONLY. STILL, NO. Not buying it = Not eating it.
2. Educate yourself about that junk food you’re scoffing: Look at the nutrition label that is plopped on the back of those Tim Tams. Look carefully. Nutrition Facts: Average serving Size: 2 cookies (if you ate the whole packet, I can’t help you), Calories 190, Calories from Fat 81. STAY. AWAY. Or you know, just eat one. Also, you’re less likely to eat it if you know that if that foodstuff were to be dumped into the Amazon it would develop a three-eyed mutation in fishies.
3. Keep a Food Journal: When you write down every thing you eat in one day, be assured you may shock yourself, unless you’re bulimic, than you might momentarily shock yourself, but be assured by the fact that you threw it up. PRO TIP: Just make sure that you keep your Food Journal encased in a notebook that is not covered by pictures of say, doughnuts. Or hot chips.
4. Substitute healthy food for junk food: Easier said than done – but try writing down the common junk you frequently consume: for example, soft drinks, sweets, chips, fried and other uber-greasy foodstuffs, and next to that sordid list, make a list of healthy food that you can eat instead of those calorie churners. This list can include carrots, cucumber, tomatoes, fruit (bananas are choice) and vegetable juice and those yummy little 100 cal bars you can get from Weight Watchers. NOMOMOM.
Can I answer too?
I still eat junk food but not so much anymore and just out of boredom usually.
I stopped eating so much of it when I got very sick and badly needed healthy foods. No, the sickness didn’t make me stop eating junk foods. Yes, the doctor and my mother often told me to cut it out. But no, that didn’t stop me either.
I stopped eating junk food when I realized that I still want to live, that I want to be healthier.
You have to care for yourself. And you really must be sure that you want to stop yourself from eating so much junk. That’s the key.
And buy fruits fruits fruits! They’re yummy and way healthier than junks.
J
Of course you’re allowed!
And thanks for your contribution – it’s great to have a very healthy perspective on things – I’m horrible at cutting out junk food from my diet myself – and I need to take my own tips (and yours) too!
Here’s something me and Andrew were discussing last week.Something for you to ponder
On the assumption that you can see into the future, would your actions in the present could have change the future that you saw or do each and every one of us have a predetermined future no matter what we do? For example, you see in the future that you will have an accident in a car that you were driving. My opinion is that if you knew that on that day you were going to have an accident and you made a concious decision to not go out driving, then you have changed all the subsequent scenarios that might have led you to be involved in an accident, thus escaping your future based on the decision that you went out driving. But andrew’s opinion is that no matter what decisions you make now, you will always have the same fate. So even though you made a concious decision not to drive, maybe a friend came around to drive you somewhere and then you got involved in an accident or you were crossing the road just for lulz and you got hit by a car.
so to conclude(^___^), can you change your future by making certain major decisions in your life or no matter what decisions you make now, there will always be other decisions along the way that you make which leads you back to your pre-determined future?
ANSWER: What a ridiculously deep question – but I guess it boils down to an individuals belief in fate and what not. Personally, I believe “fate” is a load of crock, served to us by those who write astrological theories and Scientologists.
The idea that “no matter what decisions you make now, you will always have the same fate” - generates a sense of laziness and defeatism about one’s life. I feel that if you “leave things up to fate”, you effectively have decided to take the back seat in your future. Which, puts me in the mind of letting “Fate” steer the ship into an iceberg while you sit back and say “Yeah, sure, it was Fate.” – and thus using “Fate” as a scapegoat for your own failures, lack of effort, or lack of foresight.
In the end, the only person to blame for your own stupidity and slash or, lack of foresight, is yourself. One cannot blame “Fate”. Fate, or fatalism, is a philosophical doctrine. Unfortunately, this is real life.
Pre-determined futures are on a different level -this is more a deeper theological study more than anything else, and is a question that leads to the End Game – which is: We Die. What comes next after We Die, is up to the beliefs of the individual. Personally, after death, I believe I will live in the Kingdom of Heaven. Others believe they will be eating sherbet with little silver spoons among scantily clad women.
Like I said, each to their own.
So, this is a pretty crappy answer.
BTW – I agree with you.
Do you like living in Australia? It seems like an exotic country you go to for a vacation and a tan and, except of course you live there… dont you?
ANSWER: Australia is a pretty great place to live – and I’m not saying this JUST BECAUSE I’m Australian – I’m saying this because as a “first generation” Australian, I think I’m extraordinarily lucky to live here. If my parent’s hadn’t decided to migrate to Australia, I would probably be uneducated and tapping rubber in a plantation in Malaysia!
It’s a great place to be on vacation – although, I wouldn’t recommend visiting Brisbane (my home city), mainly because much of our historical goodness and sights were obliterated in the early 1980′s when they decided to bowl everything down and replace them with ultra chic buildings! So Melbourne/Sydney are great places to visit – on Gold Coast if you have a love for endless stretches of beach.
And although a great many of Australian’s a super tanned, due to the huge number of International students, a great number are also scarily pale!
so you started out as a wordpress blogger and now you’ve busted out and bought your own domain name! huzzah! oh wait this isnt rly a question…. uhm how long did you use .wordpress until you bought a domain name?
Sorry for the super delayed response!
I actually bought the domain name around the same time I switched to WordPress – I decided to “Get Serious” about my blogging – as ludicrous as it may seem to put caps AND inverted commas around those words, it rings true – I wanted people to take my work a little more seriously, so thus, spending cash on my own domain.
Hello Jane,
Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?
Yours truly,
Reuben
Hello Reuben,
I had the chicken in the thought we looked assumption of eyeball in the basket cat.
Cool was it she say did.
Yours sincerely,
Jayne.
what’s your camera and how come you take AWESOME pictures???
Thank-you for your very sweet compliments – and I’ve been taking amateur photographs for a good long while now and it’s fun to take pictures of things and people that you love – mainly, from my pictures, you can see that I love eating (TEE HEE).
I use several cameras – but the main camera that I bring around with me is an Olympus EP-1 – crisp pictures, with a small enough size to make sure it’s not intimidating and easy to use in a formal environment in which people don’t want an SLR stuck in their faces – also, it sports an adorable vintage look. Love it!
Good site, I like it!
Why thank-you!