"Hey Myanmar, how many prizes didya get this year?" Indonesia asked cheerily.

IT'S THE 26TH SOUTH-EAST ASIA GAMES 2011! Basically a SEA-limited version of the Olympics.

Myanmar replied happily, "I GOT 7TH POSITION!" Incidentally, no one tell Myanmar that there're only 11 countries taking part.

Everyone, especially Indonesia, was pretty okay with what they got. Well, except maybe Singapore. And what was she so unhappy about?

In her spotlight of gloom, she was muttering something about requiring extra lessons in Fencing and et cetera. There's too many to list, but basically all the ones with no medals. But Singapore, 5th place isn't THAT bad! Plus you already HAVE extra lessons in Fencing! And how do you even find all that time to cram in tuition and enrichment classes and whatsoever?

Meanwhile, Vietnam was pissing off over how she had only 3rd place. "I WANT 2ND PLACE," she raged, glaring at a certain Thai. Said Thai continued humming cheerily and playing with Mr Elephant.

"I FINALLY HAVE A GOLD MEDAL," East Timor cried in joy.

Brunei declines to comment due to having no gold medal at all.

Okay fine, there's a lot of unhappy countries loitering around, but at least there's a super jubilant Indonesian.

Four hundred and seventy-six medals for Indonesia. Hurray!

"Uh, I think we should calm Singapore down or something..." Malaysia glanced over at the younger nation who was currently emo-ing and using a penknife to shred up a random bunch of papers that appeared out of nowhere. Oh, and calling a world-famous instructor to help train her. Wait, how does she even have enough hands to call AND shred?

All the countries looked over. Singapore didn't even notice that she was cutting herself rather than the paper by now.

Philippines took away the penknife as Vietnam tried to calm her down. Girls understand girls best, right?

"Come on Singapore, at least you did not THAT bad in Swimming," Vietnam reasoned.

"You won 2 out of 4 of the gold medals for Open Water Swimming..."

"Oh. Er." Awkward silence. "What about Diving, I'm sure you got something there!"

"Not even a placing."

More awkward silence. Singapore's starting to be a bit annoying.

"But... Don't you have this person named Tao Li? Who's really good at Butterfly swimming and Freestyle swimming or something?"

"She is, but it was only because China thought she was too short to join the team, so she came to me instead..." That was one of the stupidest things China ever did, did he. It's so stupid that it's becoming hilarious.

Vietnam twitched. "Well, I think China is a downright mean person and he should..." She went into a rant about all the evil things she would do to China when she laid her hands on him. Well done Vietnam, but isn't that kind of off the topic?

"..." Malaysia thought for a while. Then poof! Brainwave! "Would you like to go find Taiwan and get BUBBLE TEA? Or Korea and SUJU and DBSK and SHINee and whatever? Or Japan to get ANIME and MANGA!"

Singapore suddenly snapped out of emo mode. "YES YES YES YES YESSSSSSS," she screamed and leaped up while dragging poor Malaysia behind her.

EXTRA:

Laos and Cambodia remained standing where they were. "Do you get this feeling we're being kind of ignored?" Laos asked Cambodia.

"Blame the stupid author who forgot us," replied Cambodia.

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By the way, congratulations to Indonesia for winning... /says reluctantly/ But yeah, I guess they deserved it. Also congratulations to Thailand and Vietnam. NEVER MIND SINGAPORE IS SMALL NOT OUR FAULT NOT ENOUGH PEOPLE. AS IF.

Seriously! I swear that 90% of people in Singapore have to learn an instrument, and 95% has at least one enrichment class or something along those lines. And usually it's Chinese (unless you're not Chinese, of course) that people have tuition for. I'm not sure how many people wouldn't notice themselves being cut up, but hey, time to go dramatic.

My parents said that Malaysia is always a step behind Singapore's trends (no offence at all, kay) so now they're on the Japanese craze while Singapore is on the Korean craze. Korea's taking over Singapore, daze! But since Malaysia and Singapore are reaaaally close (Google Maps says they're only about 510km apart) and you can come over nearly any time, Malaysia probably knows best.

And yes, I'm sorry about Laos and Cambodia, but I didn't even know they existed for a really long time and the only thing I know is that Laos has this Xayaburi Dam thing on the Mekong River. And everyone else except maybe Thailand's angry about it.

HEH DID YOU NOTICE THAT NONE OF THEM EXCEPT SINGAPORE AND VIETNAM AND THAILAND HAD A GENDER. It's up to you to visualize! And that's why I didn't describe how Singapore looks either, or any of the others.