I will follow you into the dark.

MIA for 2 weeks or so again. Overdue bills resulting in disconnection again. I didn't keep track of how many times this had happened over the past few years but I bet I'm into double figures now. Anyway, I finished the book mentioned in the previous post and I went on to buy the supposedly polar-opposite counterargument Free to Choose written by Milton and Rose Friedman. Can't start on that yet , I'm now not even a fifth through The World Is Flat that dear lent me. Let's see how this battle of free market purported by extreme capitalism and globalisation with mixed-economy socialism pans out in the next couple of weeks.

I'm only just a little into The World Is Flat and the first part's talking all about outsourcing. The idea is simple and logical, find whoever can do the job at the cheapest cost and bring the job to him wherever he is. There's nothing wrong with this but considering the fact that apparently everything can be outsourced and justfiably so, will it be soon before long that every last drop of humanity will be outsourced in a way that makes the most economic sense? I shudder to think the day the functions of family ties and friendship and such can be outsourced to the cheapest provider. Don't think it's possible? No one thought that the functions of the government can be outsourced till all that's left is a hollow shell too, but just look at that global superpower now.

On a lighter note, in case you haven't been informed, 7th September Sunday at Sentosa Costa Sands there'll be a 2D1N chalet cum bbq to celebrate MY BIRTHDAY. 20th birthday, not 30th or 40th ok thanks. Please do drop by if you can and sms or call me beforehand to let me know you're coming. It's not gonna be a smashing party or what so don't expect too much, my family will be around so it's gonna be a decent affair haha. We'll just sit around eat some bbq food and drink some booze and chat.

Caught this song 'I Will Follow You Into The Dark' by Death Cab For Cuties on radio one night and thought it was so I don't know, moving? Like a simple yet sincere promise without all the lavish and impractical sweet nothings. At the risk of sounding like a fruitcake, I think this is what true love sounds like.

I Will Follow You Into The Dark

Love of mine
Someday you will die
But I'll be close behind
I'll follow you into the dark

No blinding lights or tunnels to gates of white
Just our hands clasped so tight
Waiting for the hint of the spark
If heaven and hell decide that they both are satisfied
Illuminate the no's on their vacancy signs
If there's no one beside you when your soul embarks
Then I'll follow you into the dark

In catholic school, as vicious as Roman rule
I got my knuckles bruised by a lady in black
And I held my tongue as she told me
"Son fear is the heart of love"
So I never went back

If heaven and hell decide that they both are satisfied
Illuminate the no's on their vacancy signs
If there's no one beside you when your soul embarks
Then I'll follow you into the dark

You and me
Have seen everything to see
From Bangkok to Calgary
And the soles of your shoes
Are all worn down, the time for sleep is now
But it's nothing to cry about cause we'll hold each other soon
In the blackest of rooms

If heaven and hell decide that they both are satisfied
Illuminate the no's on their vacancy signs
If there's no one beside you when your soul embarks
Then I'll follow you into the dark
I'll follow you into the dark.