As if falling and graying hair weren’t clues enough, I get up today morning with a back and neck ache. Ouch ! it was painful and is still hurting as I write this entry. Ofcourse, there is no recession to blame for this but only my own stupid bed and perhaps China…..How? Just read on….

I have two beds at my place. One is a double bed kept specially for those eternally optimistic beliefs about meeting someone at the club or pub and one thing leads to another kind of fairy tales ;). Ok alright I am kidding. The truth of the matter is that two months ago I was living with two roomies who had to leave suddenly leaving this rotten piece of equipment behind. So when I moved I decided to bring this along. I also have my own bed but that is currently being used by my maata-shri. So now I sleep on this piece of junk whose springs have disintegrated like some trashy “Made in China” toy. Hey wait a minute , isn’t this bed made in China? Or for that matter everything from that battery in your mobile phone to the 50 inch of complex electronics hanging on your wall

China, a country that claims and is claimed by many to be the next super power by everyone and anyone who possesses a knowledge of current affairs even though those so called expert people might now even know their own neighbours. Just to give you a simple example….we bought a set of knives from Target stores obviously made with the Sino prowess. Unsurprisingly they were not too expensive but when it came to using them, they were so pathetic I might well have used my car keys to cut something. I doubt if they are even good enough to make an incision on my finger which ofcourse I didn’t try otherwise my mom would have woken up the neighborhood which incidentally does include a Chinese. Wonder if he would have proved his point then. And this is the case with most of the things they make, I guess durable and reliable does not feature in their manufacturing dictionary. Even the great democracy of India awoke to this bullshit and ousted the CPI.