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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

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

Seeking professionally qualified, settled match for Sydney based, never married Aus citizen, Hindu, Punjabi Khatri 45, 5'3" slim, fair, attractive girl. Girl is postgraduate and is working on a good position in government organisation. Please send details with photo Indsyd2016@gmail.com

Parents of 33-year-old highly qualified, vegetarian Hindu girl working and well settled in good locality in Sydney seeking an educated, teetotaller and good family background boy. Prefer Australian citizen or PR. Please contact ausshubham123@gmail.com

Wanted professionally qualified, well settled match for a pretty, smart, charming B Tech (CS), 30 years old, 5'7", AnshikManglik Agarwal girl, working with NAB in Sydney. If interested, please contact +91 9990953751 or +91 8505911149 or email1952@gmail. com or Chatterji.anita9@gmail.com Seeking well settled boy in Australia accountancy fees rose from a chicken to a medium-sized bullock, which is probably what

B-list Indipop rock stars get paid these days.

Major changes in finance laws anywhere cause accountants to instantly become superstars in the eyes of the media.

But here's the thing. I was reading that particular Washington Post edition in a radio studio where several deejays had met actual rock stars. Realistic?

"Yeah, right," sneered the morning show host. "If accountants are being treated like rock gods, that means crowds of people are chasing after them, screaming and fainting and crying."

I told him that that was a pretty accurate description of the business people I know trying to get the attention of tax advisers as reporting season approaches.

In India, people desperate for financial advice camped outside the offices of accountants - classic groupie behaviour.

In the United States, accountants are turning their secretaries into booking agents. "Tax adviser Mr. Rodinksi will visit you Tuesday morning. He requires a private dressing room with white roses, a bowl of M&Ms and a chalice of virgin's blood."

You don't see this happening in Asia, where people avoid blood as it is high in saturated

Also, 99 per cent of rock musicians in Asia earn less than accountants.

I guess Mick Jagger is the most famous example of someone who started as an accountant and became an actual rock god. (Incidentally, did you read that a letter by the flirtatious Mr. Jagger was sold at an auction?

Given his advanced age, I wonder if it said "Dear Wilma Flintstone...").

Much more interesting to me is Duff McKagan, who went the other way. He was one of the wildest rock gods (he used to drink 10 bottles of wine a day - not a misprint - as the bassist of Guns 'n' Roses). Then he changed careers and became an accountant. His firm specialises in giving finance advice for rock stars and he writes a money column called Duffernomics.

Which career does he prefer? The one with all the crying and screaming and hysterical tears.

Yes, there's something about tax bills that makes people emotional.

Anyway, the final triumph of accountants proves the truth of that ancient holy scripture which talks about "the revenge of the nerds". Wait. Maybe that was a movie? Whatever. It's still true.

(businessman or professional) for a Hindu Khatri (never married) India based girl, 5'3", beautiful, slim, very fair, vegetarian, postgraduate, December 1985 born. Brother settled in Melbourne. Call or whatsapp: +61456604747, +91 7087879898 email: 9gannu@gmail.com

Seeking Brides

Australian citizen, Indian man, in 50s, university educated, seeking honest lady for marriage. Contact tamavu@hotmail.com.au or 0406 688 262

Seeking professionally qualified settled match for Sydney based, never married Aus citizen, Hindu, Punjabi Khatri 44, 6', athletic built boy. He is project manager with engineering background and is working in a private organisation. Please send details with photoIndsyd2016@gmail.com

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

Seeking suitable preferably Sindhi match for my only son, age 31 years, Sydney based, in his own business, planning to relocate to Mumbai, affluent and professional family. Please contact Mrs. Chitra Sadarangani on 0412 500 142/raunak62@hotmail.com

Seeking 25-30 year old Hindu/Punjabi girl from Australia for our 32-year-old Specialist Doctor son 5'9", born and brought up in Sydney. Please respond: gupta_rsr@hotmail.com or ph 0414282510

Seeking professional alliance for 31-year-old Sindhi non-alcoholic, vegetarian businessman, no siblings, settled in Sydney since 18 yrs. Please correspond: saibless2019@yahoo.com

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