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SEEKING GROOMS

Seeking professionally qualified match for Brahmin, vegetarian girl born in 1985, and working as a doctor in Sydney. The family are well settled in Sydney and prefer boy with Australian citizenship or PR. Please contact aussyd08@gmail.com

Well-settled/professional match invited for Sydney-based Punjabi girl, IT professional/business analyst, never-married, 44/5'6"; attractive, fair, jolly nature and a good mix of Indian and modern values. Working in an MNC. Australian citizen. Educated family. Parents well settled. Send details with photo: sydgirl09@gmail.com

Wanted a suitable match for 39 year old Brahmin girl 5’-4’’ fair complexion well settled in Australia having government job and has own residential property. Contact kumar. sham@bigpond.com restaurants, your Fitbit will think you are an exercise nut.

Now THAT’S an exercise program I could really go for.

The leaders on some website health pages are recording 80,000 steps a day each - which is pretty impressive, since running an entire marathon only gets you about 45,000 steps.

How do you achieve those kinds of scores?

I got interested in this after a reader wrote to me about a restaurant in Harbin, China, which provides “fool your step counter” gadgets to customers. You stick your phone or Fitbit or pedometer into a little cradle which swings around while you eat, drink and sleep.

On Chinese web-shopping pages, there are now hundreds of these devices for sale.

Now I know what you’re thinking: why fool a device that makes you healthier? What if you are not a stupid, immoral egotist who hates exercise? (Such people exist, allegedly.)

Well, some folk justify cheating with specific arguments. “Some health insurance firms offer a discount for active people who can prove they walk 10,000 steps a day,” said reader Derya Bey. “And some schools in China require a minimum amount of active movement every day from each student.”

The alternative, of course, is to actually do some exercise, and some people need to. One rather overweight male friend of this columnist, referring to Japanese electronic pets, commented: “Step-counters are like Tamagotchis; only, the stupid creature you have to keep alive is yourself.”

And then of course, there are the people who get high scores by accident. I know of one woman who accidentally put her step-counter through a washing machine and drier and it credited her with climbing 84 flights of stairs that day.

Warning: Use health apps too much and your brain starts to perceive them as judgmental finger-pointers. One colleague got such a low score one day that she faked an illness and went to bed early so her Fitbit wouldn’t judge her.

Reader, you don’t want to get into that sort of situation. I hope you’ll be sensible about your use of health apps.

In which case, I’ll see you at the buffet table!

Seeking Brides

Indian Muslim man, 43 years old, divorced, lawyer, Australian citizen, based in Sydney, seeking a practising Muslim bride below 35 years of age. Contact: 0424 457 180.

Indian Christian Protestant parents seeking a suitable match for their 38-year-old son, a software engineer, born and brought up in Australia. Seeking Protestant girl between 28 and 34. years. Email: sammy5073@gmail. com or call 0403 836 360.

Suitable match for handsome, 1986born, 5’7”, Mair Rajput Goldsmith boy (Punjab born), Australian citizen. Working as a manager in Melbourne. Caste no bar. Please share bio and photos on Whatsapp 0470 388 064 or email: ronr275@yahoo.com.au

Wanted suitable match for 35 year old Brahmin boy 5’-8’’, fair complexion well settled in Australia having his own successful business. Contact kumar.sham@bigpond.com