A stopped watch may be right twice a day... but it's still pretty useless otherwise

My new watch which I bought in Bangkok in April had stopped sometime last month. Initially I thought it was the battery... I thought maybe the person who sold it to me put in a bad battery. After all, it was only a night market product. Hadn't had time to get the battery changed until today, where I discovered it was not the fault of the battery, but the fault of the watch. Got rather pissed off about that! Now I'm really stuck without a watch, because I don't think I can afford to get a proper one until a few good months later. It's so strange for me to go without a watch, I have been wearing one eversince I was 12. I've been surviving the past few weeks on my handphone. Fortunately my school has clocks everywhere so I can rely on them; and now that they've standardised the timetables of the entire secondary school, the bell goes off at every period change. It's just that when I'm out with friends, it's inconvenient to keep digging for my handphone; I used to be able to discreetly check out the time on my watch if I wanted to see what time it was.

Now all I've got is a shiny metal wrist accessory that looks like a watch. Hmph.