dont u hate it when people lament about the quality of manufactured goods "these days", and how "back in the old days they were built to last". well, i find it quite irritating, but i'm going to do it now....

my damn mobile phone decided suddenly to stop working today. actually the phone works fine but the screen has stopped working- there is a bunch of straight and curved lines of various colours and nothing else. and even more frustrating- the warranty expired about 2 months ago!!! when the warranty was extant, i dropped the phone numerous times on all sorts of surfaces- carpets, tiles, footpaths, grass etc etc, without any problems whatsoever. its almost as if the phone was designed to breakdown just after its warranty expired.

things just arent built to last these days