LostCommand

Manager and troubleshooter. When the cards are down and hell is about to break loose, (example, no more gasoline available for Manila, and Manila only has 18 hours to go before drying out) they call me to cover the duty. If there is a problem, the odds are high, the solution is not sure, and somebody has to take the gamble, it is usually me who does. Usually, I have a tendency to win. I have a hard time working with those who do not take their chances. The best part of it is, when we win, my men are all behind me and throw a party, and if we do lose, my men never abandon me and some even take the blame to help save my sorry ass.

Moon Bourbon, I was just looking for that poem by P Neruda in my scrapbook, and I found it written on a page creased from reading and heavy memories. Time and distance do not blur the pain still plain to see in the etched scrawl.

hurt,

bleed,

suffer

"Forgetting is so long"

No avatar for me, signature na lang.

They say a picture is worth a thousand words,

yet words are all I have to take your heart(s) away.

Matakot pa kayo when you see me!

rgds, LC

I posted this somewhere, damn I forgot where. Forgot the author too, but I memorized this one by heart years ago. It remain one of my favorites.

This one goes out to the forgotten soldiers out there who belong to another age, yet go about their duties here and now because it is not in them to do otherwise. May you recover the Shards of Eternity that are hidden within these blasted and broken mortal realms, and in putting these together, may you realize that victory is inevitable, even if it was not given to you to see it.

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Over the night that covers me,

Black as the Pit from pole to pole

I thank whatever Gods may be

for my unconquerable soul

In the fell clutch of Circumstance

I have not winced nor cried aloud

Under the bludgeonings of Chance

my head is bloody buy unbowed

Beyond this place of wrath and tears

looms but the horrors of the Shade

Yet the menace of the years finds

and shall find me unafraid

It matters not how straight the gate

How charged with punishment the scroll

I am the master of my fate

I am the captain of my soul

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Profession: Chemical Engineer

Position: Plant Operations Manager, multinational oil company

Location(s): Batangas; Makati; or wherever the bosses send me

Age:30, single, (potah, alang cute sa planta)

Schools: AteneoGS/PSHS/UPDiliman

Hobbies: Photgraphy; serious offroad driving; drinking; and ****ing

99+ (Average PSHS score, anyway)

To find out how the world ticks,

and then to make it tick better

To dream of how things should be

and to share that dream with others

To use the swords and armor we were gifted

and not to rust uselessly as others struggle

To find stray shards of eternity within this mortal realm,

and not be misled by what is merely transitory.

To fight for these,

and not to count the cost