Esprit the corp!

This is what we call coptic stitch binding..its a bit different with kettle stitch..i prefer kettle stitch because i can create a beautiful butterfly in a variety colour...i finished it in 3 hrs last nite and addicted with it.

I suppose to choose green colour to stitch this character of paper, but i didn't notice that blue is not really suit with army fabric. I know this is illegal to use this fabric, but i like it..someone gave it to me long time ago. If im not mistaken, that was the remnant of the fabric and the tailor presented it to me because i love the motif and colour itself..

As usual, i prefer to recycle all the items that i had..the camel button was taken from my khaki camel that i kept it as 'bahan recycle' in my wardrobe..the khaki can't fix anymore..don't know whether it was shrink or else im getting bigger and bigger..sigh!

 And again, from my eyes, an owl is really cute and unique because of it character...

Hmm..im thinking who am i gonna give this book to??? If my father is 'still here', i will present it to him because he was an ex-wataniah..he was a very good in discipline in his way to educate us (me and siblings) how marching can educate us to have a good team work. You know, if one of us couldn't follow the step, the troop is not perfect and it ensemble that we don't have a spirit of unity @ no esprit the corp!

Talking about esprit the corp...i remember the thing when i was in Reserve Officer Training Unit (ROTU). That was a hard time because we had a battle with RELA and most of them was a lady...we had to pretend like we were in ambush scene and had to combat them. One of us threw a stone to the RELA group and it hurted the makcik who's in RELA group. Actually she was an orang asli women, took part in our training.

Her head was hurted and our commander did an emergency assembly. All of us became panic because we knew what will happened when someone hurt and it became more obvious because the makcik did a report to our PW1 (Pegaiwai Waran 1), Encik Lias.

"Kadet!! Cepat mengaku siapa lempar batu pada RELA tu?" Our commander, Kapt A shouted to us. All was like tunduk dan menikus macam ayam berak kapur, takut and suspen sebab kalau tak ada yang mengaku, semua kena punish.
"Cepat!!!! Aku kira satu sampai tiga, kalau tak ada juga, korang tahu apa korang kena buat!"

Satu!

Dua!

Tiga!!!!!!

"Apa lagi? Full!!! Sapa tak full aku rendam lagi sampai korang kembang!!!" (Kami kena rendam dalam tasik yang airnya separas lutut, kena rendam full sampai basah from head to toe in army uniform..just imagines how funny and teruk the situation..dengan marching boots and backpack seberat 10 kg kat belakang, topi segala bagai, semua basah..grrrr..rasa nak telan kapten tu..)

In the end, nobody appeared and the makcik dissapointed because no one was blamed for that kinda tak senonoh punya ambush. Actually, we were had a secret agreement @ MOU to keep it as secret till last. If someone went to the front line and mengaku that he/she did it (threw the batu) we still kena punish or denda. Jadi instead of  takut, panic etc and confused because kapten tu suka buat tricky in his way nak test kami-kami, kita orang sepakat nak senyap and showed him that escprit the corp is important in a troop. Let say if the enemy caught us, no secret will be bocor from us and the captain was smile all the way sebab kami berjaya sepakat dan senyap tak bocorkan rahsia siapakah punya tangan yang melempar batu ke arah makcik RELA..

"Hmm korang bagus, aku saja nak test. Esok kalau musuh tangkap, tiada rahsia kerajaan keluar dari mulut korang. Makcik tu kirim salam, luka dia dah sembuh.."
"Yay!! We did it. Esprit the corp Capt!!!" And we jump higher and higher till we successfully commissioned as Young Officer...that's what esprit de corp meant to me...