My batchmates are apparently doomed.

They were screaming in our not-so-secret Facebook group about how CL Yun Zhen found out they've been reading her blog.

God, am I glad I didn't bother checking her blog again after that first time.

... Although I still am guilty. Ehehehe.

I wonder how she found out though. The idea of her finding this blog and looking at it and finding out is almost imperceptible, whatever that means since I forgot what it meant. But I think it means impossible to perceive or something. Hopefully.

I'm not going to put labels on this since I wouldn't want a pissed-off batchmate to come after me.

Sayon.

Hetalia Day! Some extra part.

YOU KNOW, I JUST REALIZED EVERYONE FORGOT MY BIRTHDAY THANKS TO HETALIA DAY.

Okay, so it's been revealed that the organizers are busy stalking people to find pictures or something. We were planning to get hundreds of photos from everyone, inclusive of stealing from the person who posted her album on France's post (sorry about that...), but I might as well upload some of mine first.

Greece. Taken by accident.

For Hungary's mission. Prussia doesn't know that.

USA has usa ears! Geddit?

Blurry picture of the pretty Hungary

AND THEY'RE TWINS.

Some Hungary challenge again.

@Hong Kong: Wow for expressionless.

Be proud; we got to Canada before America.

While he was preparing to pose.

Haha okay that'll be it for now! Oh, and I feel sad because Prussia's ignoring me, Spain called me whiny and England's the only one who responded to any of my stuff. -hides in corner- I feel proud of Bela for becoming famous for her role as, well, Bela.

Sayon.

Hetalia Day! Part 2

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MY DRAWINGS
I signed off with Ensei for all my drawings:

1. Chibi Liechtenstein
2. Hungary, coloured
3. Japan/Taiwan. The guy was kind of hard to identify though.
4. Prussia
5. Seychelles, closed eyes
6. The word HETALIA, coloured with all rainbow colours and with a pink winged heart beside it.
7. Monaco
8. Russia, female
9. China and Russia
10. Unknown head, suspiciously looks like England.
11. Chibi Belarus
12. Chibi England

And a lot more.
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PRUSSIA'S ABOLISHMENT AND A TEST
I also repeated to Prussia nearly the same lines about 3 times. The first time was for England's mission. The second time I was bored and decided to repeat again. Only difference was, Canada gave the thumbs-up sign, not America.

FIRST TIME
Me: But Prussia, aren't you supposed to be dead? I mean like, Prussia was a German country which was officially dissolved in 1947...
Prussia: -muffles me by covering my mouth-
America: -thumbs-up sign-

SECOND TIME
Me: But Prussia, you were officially dissolved in 1947 though you were effectively dissolved before World War 2..."
Prussia: -covers my mouth-
Canada: -thumbs-up sign-

THIRD TIME
Me: -stands far away-
Me: But Prussia, you really were officially dissolved in 1947 and effectively dissolved before World War 2 because you were increasingly merged into...
Prussia: -covers ears-
Prussia: LALALAA I CAN'T HEAR ANYTHING AT ALL
England: -thumbs-up sign-


After that, I also decided to stand on the stage behind Prussia and hold my fan as if I was going to hit his head with it. And while people were gaping and taking photos, Prussia didn't even realize anything. When he finally did, he asked, "So... Is this for Hungary's mission?"

I replied, "No."

He answered, "Okay, then don't hit me."
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RUSSIA AND BELARUS
We also had a fun time letting my friend Bela chase Russia around. She was accompanied by an official (I think) Belarus too. There was this particular Russia in a black coat who kept being very obviously running away, and when they did China's mission together he was like, nervously sweating.

I even took a video and uploaded it on You tube, if you'd like to see:

Russia VS Belarus [Hetalia Day 2011]

The shorter Belarus is my friend, the other one was some random one who sponsored the knives. I loved it when Hong Kong gave Russia the axe and then stepped away~ Which reminds me, Ukraine and Belarus' theme song was playing right then. Coincidence~?
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After that Bela got herself a Soviet Union doujinshi which cost $10. Pretty expensive considering it was only about 1/3 the size of an ordinary manga.

Oh, and here's an upload of the Mission Card; it's really cute!

I had a hard time putting the stickers so they wouldn't overlap though. I might update this if I remember more fun things~!

Hetalia Day! Part 1

Yesterday was fun! Prussia and I kept teasing each other even though we totally didn't know each other (elaborated below). I only regret having to leave early before my curfew.

SERIOUSLY, IT'S MY BIRTHDAY, I SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO STAY FOR THE WHOLE THING!!!

I think I was in a vantage point with the cosplayers. I tend to like to get to know the people personally, rather than focusing on the events only. A lot of them I didn't get to know well, but I got to know Prussia and Hungary a bit better.

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Here's a recount, kind of:

I arrived at Yio Chu Kang at around 10.15am, which was relatively early since only Rettsu was there. We all squished our faces to the glass walls and waved to the people inside. I was holding a black-framed red fan while doing so. Of all of them, only Prussia waved back, sadly.

So Kimberlyn went to change into her Megane!England cosplay. Hungary, who was standing outside adjusting her hair, wanted to look, but she decided not to since Kimberlyn was rather shy. Hungary was really pretty~ So was Belgium~

When they finally tried to open the doors, they made a lame mistake and pulled the push door. Haha. Anyway, we all got welcomed in and they began a small ice-breakers. We each got a card with a name (mine was Latvia). Then we were supposed to find people in the same group as us, for example Baltics, so I went to find Lithuania and Estonia.

I wasn't sure, so I went up to America and England and asked if there were repeats, of which they said YES. But we gave up looking for more and somehow two more Baltic repeats strayed to us. Which was sad, because it meant that all the screaming I did (that killed a lot of ears) was pretty fruitless.

And after that I stood by to prepare to cling onto Prussia and ask for a mission, only that he moved away to bother Hungary, so I ended up rushing to Canada. I got there first, hell yeah!

After that I can't remember the order I did them, but I still remember all of them:
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MISSIONS
For SEYCHELLES, we had to fish out a live fish. It was pretty easy for me, though I caught some France mermaids and dead ones before that. And while waiting in the queue, America called me cute and Seychelles agreed haha.


For GERMANY, we had to hit the potatoes and earn 5 points. I did this as a group, and for some reason we kept hitting America's face, cue insane laughter. I was the only one who even scored any points, but my 5 points counted for everyone else so it was okay.


For USA aka AMERICA, we guessed 5 names of movies that the pictures came from. Jia Yang guessed about, what, 7 movies? I don't watch American horror, but I just told America:

"You know, American movies are really amazing!"

And America was so happy he gave me my sticker straightaway. In your face, people who never thought to just suck up a bit.


For RUSSIA, it was that classic game where there's a ball under a cup and you have to guess which cup it's under. I was the first person to guess wrong, apparently, but I pointed out to Russia that he cheated and put the ball into the another cup while mixing them up so I got the sticker.


For FRANCE, you either thrust a rose out to someone, put a censored picture in front of your vital regions or put a censor between your mouth and someone else's mouth. I heard that other people got other missions though. The cosplayer for France was a shy and easily-embarrassed girl, surprisingly.


For CANADA, it was pretty easy, with no time limit anyway. Just quickly flip all the leaves and search for 3 with a picture of Canada. I should have just taken 3 empty ones and say Canada was there, but because my flipping skills are amazing I flipped them all within 5 seconds and finished.


For AUSTRIA, just guess who sang the song Austria plays to you and get 5 correct. I got all correct, though Yi Jia helped me with Germany's because I don't listen to him at all. We got The Absolutely Invincible British Gentleman, Pechka Light My Heart, Marukaite Chikyuu (Germany) and two more Germany songs. I was like, "I-NO-D-ASOLULY-INVISIBLE-BITIS-GETLEME!"


For LIECHTENSTEIN, I'm not entirely sure how we passed, but it was just flipping cards and matching them. When we got empty cards, Bela reasoned that Canada was invisible, so it got counted in the end anyway.


For HONG KONG, we had to do a dance while wielding an axe, and for some reason America did it with us. Of all of us, I was most hyped out about it and at some points in time it looked like the House Mass-Dance. Hong Kong, amazingly, managed to stay remarkably silent and expressionless throughout the whole thing.


For NORTH ITALY, oh wait I forgot. Hang on. Oh yeah, Pictionary. I drew and we got "Apple (software)", "Microsoft", "Starbucks" and "Pizza". We could write words though, so I solved them by doing these:

Apple: Just draw the logo.

Microsoft: '_____ Word? _____ Excel? _____ Powerpoint?'

Starbucks A bit tougher. I just drew as best as I could the logo ("Is that Hungary?") and drew a star and a dollar note (buck).

Pizza: Anyone can draw pizza, heck.


For JAPAN and TAIWAN, we had to buy Omukuji, this piece of paper which writes your fortune. I got Extreme Luck and a picture of America. Oh and did you know? The cosplayers for Japan and Taiwan are twins in real life!


For UK aka ENGLAND, he'll give you props to wear and get you to say something mean to any of the cosplayers. For me, I wore black cat ears (maybe because I was wearing white flowers in my hair) and angel wings. And as I was instructed, I went to Prussia with a cute look on my face, and said,

"But Prussia, aren't you supposed to be dead? I mean like, Prussia was a German country which was officially dissolved in 1947..." Prussia muffled me by covering my mouth and nearby, America gave me a thumbs-up sign.

England was pretty pleased, and gave me my sticker.


For CHINA, I'm not sure what it is but apparently it was Chinese ghost, where you wear this piece of paper on your head and jump around. I quickly chose the China one, because China said something that had a double meaning and I interpreted it as "general of war". China kept speaking in Chinese though my Chinese is fail...


For SPAIN, you use your fingers to try and kick the ball into the goal 2 times while Spain blocks the goal. The first time I hit it, it bounced off the side into the goal. The second time, I hit it before Spain was ready and he was like, "Come on! Let me prepare first!" but it got in same way as the first.


For GREECE, you have to play a three-legged race. Yi Jia and I just chanted, "One-two" all the way and we won easily. Later I repeated with Bela so that she could get her sticker and there was this couple who just walked backwards when going back haha.


For HUNGARY, you have to help her take a photo of a shipping. We got SpaHol and RoChu. I tried to do SpaHol while the rest did RoChu, but I failed. Here's what happened:

Me: Holland, have you seen Spain?
Holland: He should be on cafe duty, yeah, he's over there.
Me: Well you see, I have this friend who likes the both of you, so could you two perhaps take a photo together...?
Holland: I'm sorry, but I think we shouldn't bother him till his shift is over, okay?
-Holland pats my head-
Me: YOU JUST STUNTED MY GROWTH!

So it failed. Strangely when I asked Spain nearly the exact same thing, he had almost the same reaction except for the growth stunt.

And Hungary, knowing that, decided to be nice and give us something much easier: PruGer. So I used the same excuse. Till now, Prussia still doesn't know that was an excuse and will never get to know he shouldn't have dashed to Germany.


For BELGIUM and SOUTH ITALY, we had to lie down in the shape of the person on a piece of paper while Belgium/Romano took a photo of us. I got Death by Ballet for top part and Decide By Yourself for bottom. One of my friends got England Did It haha.


For PRUSSIA, he gives a lot of random stuff, but the most common which is what I got is to balance Gilbird on the head and circle a cosplayer. I had to circle Germany and after an immediate first fail, I decided to take measures and instead stood like a proper lady.

So with small steps, head held high, straight body and balanced weight, I circled Germany, but right after doing so, Spain rushed by and Gilbird was tousled off by the wind. So I screamed and checked Gilbird for injuries while Prussia gave me my sticker.
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I was one of the fastest to finish, though I had to wait for Austria and Feliciano since they were on cafe duty when I needed them. I managed to get a Russia keychain and a Feliciano badge, which were both pretty cute and Yi Jia was like, "I WANT RUSSIA". So I spent the rest of my time taking photos, chatting with Prussia or doodling on the Graffiti Wall.

Sayon.

Waffles

I'm kind of free so I'll write on waffles now. All this is based on my own knowledge, so it may be wrong.

I'm not entirely sure what the dough of waffles is made from, so I can't elaborate on that. However, the flavourings are obviously made from whatever they're called. Like red bean is made from red bean, kaya from kaya, and chocolate from cacao. Or cocoa. Can't remember.

Anyway, here are some factors that affect the taste of waffles:


1. Time for waffle to cook

The most common problem. When put for too long it'll burn, obviously. But for some reason it's more common to have them put for too short a time. When that happens the waffle won't be crunchy and will be pretty floppy to an extent.



2. Amount of dough used

They kept doing this problem when trying to save money. They put too little dough and as a result, the waffle became too thin and you can practically taste the thinness. I don't really know how to explain it, but it kind of feels like the whole waffle was a bit smaller than it's supposed to be.


3. Things done while cooking waffle

I don't mean you can't walk off, of course. This may not be a very big error, but it does affect a little bit. A lot of people forget to scrape off any part of the waffle that might have overflowed and stuck to the sides. If you don't, the waffle will (if you can get the whole thing off) be kind of oddly-shaped. And when you try to pick it up, the waffle will get bent at strange angles because it's hard to pull off.

I think those were the main problems. Now onto the spreadings:

1. Dilluting the spread with water

This is a huge NO. It makes the flavour taste watery, which sucks at any rate. It's also quite obvious when the spread spills onto the paper wrapping the waffle and it has a watery texture.


2. Putting too little spread

Also a no thank you. It sucks to have parts of the waffle where you can't taste any flavour. And not too much though, or the spread will spill out easily.


I'm too bored, aren't I.

Sayon.

Double Moon

Three things will be covered in this post, which is done late at night.

Did you hear about Yueyue? The Chinese child who was crushed to her death, pronounced dead at 12.32am.

She... Was sad. But even though I don't think what the passer-bys did was correct, I guess they had a good reason for it. Who knows? The female rushing by might have been rushing to see her dying husband at the hospital. A mother walking by might be too afraid to help, wondering if this is just a set-up since no one else is helping.

In fact, the whole thing was so easily ignored that, who knows, it might have looked like a planned scene. So even though I resent them for not helping, but... It's not easy to step out from the crowd, and stretch out a gentle hand. And even with training, nobody can think clearly, act properly when the time arrives for them to be tested.

Goodbye, the double moon, slashed into broken shards and spreading your red mist. Your innocence will be remembered throughout the world.

Onto a happier note. I got into House Committee as Creative Arts Director. Except I accidentally overslept and pon school on the day of House Camp. Pain in the ass, I don't even get my awesome badge.

And Hetalia Day is tomorrow. I'll take a picture of myself and upload them, along with pictures of my friends if they allow it.

Sayon.

Song Plans

I plan to sing these too:

1. Akahitoha
2. Black Lotus (Flowering Night)
3. Shisou Rinne, Reirou no Tsui (Bloom Nobly, Cherry Blossoms of Sumizome)
4. Matryoshka

The problem is that I can adopt many different voices (and it doesn't sound similiar, to my surprise) so I don't know which voice to use. Hopefully my voice will be able to touch the hearts of people, even if my mixing skills can go to hell.

Sayon.

[Cover] Love is War

I made a new cover~ Koi wa Sensou. Pretty new song to me.

Love is War [Cover: Ensei]

[Cover] Challenges

I took two challenges today! I don't think I did too badly on them, other than my JBR one. Arghh I went OFF-TUNE. That's the worst singing fail that can happen. Except maybe choking on your own saliva while singing, like in Meltdown.

I feel sad that Meltdown 2x was of higher quality than Meltdown. I mean like seriously?? No makes sense. At all. And actually Just Be Friends 2x was the second try. I spent the whole day before that singing that while fighting at the Korean Fair (more like, NTUC Korean Food Discount) to buy cheap and awesome Korean food~

Meltdown 2x Challenge [Accepted: Ensei]

Just be Friends 2x Challenge [Accepted: Ensei]

I suggest you try too. The good thing about challenges is that even if you do badly no one gives a damn, since, "It's so fast, I'm sure it's hard to even stay in tune." Awesome excuse haha.

Recently II: Introducing my Senpai

Part Two,


So it turned out that friend of mine randomly searched my senior's name on Google and found her blog. And in the blog the senior laughed at us because we kept replying "no" each time she sounded negative when actually the answer was "yes". Argh.

Dear senpai (you take Japanese too after all), if you see this post, I'm really sorry that I'm kind of stalking your blog. Please forgive me. Though I don't think you'll ever see this anyway.

So this senior found is... Argh I don't care for hiding names anymore, I just won't tag her name and hopefully my senior won't find it. Her name's Yun Zhen and she's like Rebekah's sidekick. You know stuff like Powerpuff Girls? If Rebekah was Blossom, Cui Qin would probably be Bubbles and Yun Zhen would be Buttercup.

Because Yun Zhen scares the hell out of the Year One NPCC (Sea) Cadets. Which includes me. She's really scary, like when she talks to us it feels like there's something negative in whatever we're doing. No matter how she says it. Even when she's in normal mode she's still like that.

Some of my batchmates hate her and one of them wants to hug her (which makes no sense). For me I can't really say I like her that much, but I don't hate her. Like, I think that she really is trying not to be mean, but it's just natural or something for her so she ends up sounding very scary and scaring the hell out of us, unfortunately.

Anyway. So thanks to Emily I ended up stalking Yun Zhen's posts on NPCC (Sea) to see whether she wrote anything negative about us. I had to laugh when she wrote that our 'optimism' was 'very encouraging'. If she'd known how we'd end up by the end if the year... I haven't finished reading, but according to Andrea, who gave me spoilers probably because she read from most recent unlike me, she openly hates us.

Far as I read she doesn't hate us, but maybe it's just she only noticed it in the last few months or something. Which is sad. But I kind of can relate to her now. She likes ixora, you know, just like me. Although I like a lot of flowers. Just that I find ixora petite and cute. And her religious views are quite similar to mine.

Sadly, she always feels like punching us, thinks we're basically girly, pretty rude, too free, not conformed enough, etc. Not to mention we keep asking questions like, "Do you like cats." But she thinks we're appreciative and enthusiastic.

Sayon.

Recently

Saishouka. Is that correct?

Saishouka, not a lot of things happened. Other than a friend of mine introducing me to the habit of stalking CCA seniors. Argh. And watching HetaOni and Hetalia stuff all over again. Besides that, in about 2 days I have exams. So far we had Chemistry Practical (known as SPA or something) and Japanese Oral.

SPA went pretty smoothly, other than the fact that I took half the time they gave me to complete it. I don't know if that's a good or bad thing, because the teacher said, 'Chemistry teachers can do the SPA given to you in half the time because they have good time management!'. Which either means:

1. I have awesome time management.
2. I was careless.

My time management is the worst in the world, but I think that reason is more likely than the other. I didn't spill any liquids, burn anything, et cetera. Not to mention the answer was definitely 'Hydrogen' produced, and the unknown solution was 'Hydrochloric acid'. Any acid will do, actually. Even 'Acid'.

Firstly, it was definitely hydrogen. Why? Because for one, I didn't smell anything horrible so there was no ammonia to begin with. When I tested for CO2 nothing happened either, unless you consider 'calcium hydroxide (remaining) clear'. But even though I left the test tube uncovered for about 5 minutes (a mistake on my part since that meant the gas probably escaped by then), the flame still 'extinguished with a "pop" sound'. Isn't that a miracle?

(It was quite strange though. There was one whole bench which got ammonia, don't ask me how. And another with CO2 because they imagined things or something. Another one got nothing at all. My bench was the lucky one which tested positive for hydrogen.)

It was also really funny. Like Student A and Student B sat right beside each other. Then A wanted to light her fire, so she turned on the gas tap. But she hadn't even clicked the lighter when her Bunsen burner burst into flames.

Why? Well you see, the fans were causing a lot of wind, the fire was being blown by the wind and B's fire was being blown towards A's Bunsen burner... (Considering we had to be graded on how we lighted our fires, we joked that she'd get high marks because she didn't do anything and her fire lighted.)

Japanese Oral was tanoshikata desu. There were quite a few Kanji, but to my relief I only didn't know two of them. My passage was about going to the beach with my friends and the stuff I did. Like eating 'Sandoichi'. Or playing 'Tenisu'. Japanese is a bit strange sometimes, but at least it's logical (sometimes).

Then during my conversation the teacher asked me 9 questions. I didn't know one, but I guess it was okay because others didn't know about 3.

1. What school are you from?
Rahurusu jyoushi chugakko desu. (Raffles Girls' School.)

2. Where is your school?
Jitsu wa wakaranai, demo Ochado Roudo no naka ni? (Actually I don't know, but in Orchard Road?)

3. What's your CCA?
Anpishishishi. (NPCCSea.) [Sounds quite lame when I romanize it like that...]

4. Is your CCA fun?
Tanoshikata desu! (It's fun!)

5. Something about me and tsukaeru. I think it was something about my hobbies, but I'm not sure.

6. Where's your house?
Watashi no uchi wa Bukitto Battoku _______ [I just mumbled out some particles here.] (My house is in Bukit Batok.)

7. What type of rooms are in your house? [What the shit?]
Etto... Oneechan no heya, oneechan no heya, oneechan mo heya, okaasan no heya to watashi no heya. (My sister's room, my sister's room, my sister's room again, my mother's room and my room.)

8. What is in your room?
Hon. (Books.)

9. What type of books?
Manga. Manga to... Etto... Manga. (Manga. Manga and... Manga.) [Because I forgot how to say other types.]

Yeah. Pain in the ass, but it was quite fun and I think I did not too bad for a Level One in Japanese.

Sayon.

[Songs] Aishiteru (Kourin) (With Hetalia PV)

Recently I've been watching those fanmade AMVs where the fans draw their own pictures, fit it to an existing song and set it out. So I've been watching for Hetalia ones, and I quite like them.

Some of them show the melancholic pasts of the countries and how they have to get over it and continue living as they are. One of my favourites uses the song "Aishiteru" by Kourin. It basically shows some sad scenes from the lives of the countries.

For example, there was the scene with the rainy, fateful day where England had to let go of America. Where France gave Joan d'Arc a flower to put in her hair and Joan smiled. The very next scene was of Joan's grave and the flower in her hair as a bouquet at her tombstone. Leaving China behind, Japan's coldness to his mentor. Everyone leaving Russia and loneliness coming; but Belarus comes back and hugs him tightly.

【AxisPowersヘタリア】ヘタリアで『愛してる』【手書き】‐ニコニコ動画

It's very charming and beautiful, and I think it's absolutely wonderful because I wanted to cry even though it wasn't a tearjerker and I didn't cry anyway. The drawing style is also very beautiful, and a lot of people seem to want hair like Japan's.

Sayon.

[Hetalia] Re-Edit: Official Malaysia?!

OH MY GOSH! My roleplay friend, China, actually went to research on Malaysia from the post about Malaysia being a female. According to her, Malaysia there is just a Malaysian that Himaruya met, not really the real nation. -pisses off at the fanfiction writer who informed me wrongly-

... But she'll probably serve as the basis for Malaysia anyway... Noooo.

Well, at least my MYSG vs. IDSG vs. USSG vs. UKSG is still existent anyway.

Sayon.

Why Do We Need Pop Quizzes For Researching Anyway?

My teacher set us this ridiculously long quiz on how to research. Considering it's an open book test and we have a week to do it, it's quite ridiculous.

Then again, Research Studies (RS) has always been stupid. We used to spend our time in RS doodling, doing homework, falling asleep or sleeping outright. The only RS that managed to catch our attention was Interview, and that was only because the teacher bought us curry puffs to eat during the lesson.

But it really is fail. Just about 10 questions on why malepregnancy.com is not reliable or something. Dude, it's not reliable because our instincts say so. We have good instincts you know. Singaporeans are just like that; so kiasu that they need to triple-check everything to make sure they're really getting the 5Cs.

Sayon.

[Hetalia] Official Malaysia?!

AHHHHHH!!! I was reading the awesome fanfiction in my previous post, and then the author said that new nations had come out! So I went to look to see if Singapore was there somehow, and guess what I saw? What I friggin' saw??

NOOOOO!!! FUUUUU NOOO!!!!!

-fangirl heart shatters- -throws away IDSG and MYSG- Now only UKSG's left...

OH GOD but the impossible just happened and Malaysia turned out to be a female. What if Singapore turns out to be a guy...?

THEN THERE'S NO PAIRING POSSIBLE BECAUSE MALAYSIA SHOULD ALWAYS BE THE SEME AND SINGAPORE'S SUPPOSED TO BE MUCH LESS AGGRESSIVE!! FUUUU!!!

And if that happens I'll die... All the evidence says Singapore should be a girl... Even the gender ratio of guys to girls in Singapore is 974:1000... And I'm a Singaporean girl and as far as I see Singaporean guys aren't interesting at all...

NOOO THAT'LL BE ONE OF MY REASONS FOR SUICIDE. DEFINITELY. I CAN NEVER BE PROUD OF MY COUNTRY AGAIN IF SHE'S NOT A GIRL IN HETALIAAAAAA.

And when I went to the Hetalia group I'm in on Facebook, screaming about this horrible piece of news, the first thing a girl said was:

"Wow. You're abandoning the pairing just because Malaysia's a girl? Talk about being a misogynist."

She doesn't know how much that hurt me, huh... Usually I do like females, to the point where people called me a lesbian. It's always sad how people always call me names for everything I do.

That's another reason why I love Hetalia so much. Because all of the countries are part of the environment, and they can never hurt me like how humans do. And that's why I hate humans so much, because they're always hurting everything that exists. If we could all just disappear, I'm sure the world would be able to revive again.

Sa-sayon...

[Hetalia] Hints of Singapore?

I was just reading this random fanfic and this popped out at me. As I read, the girl, Name (because it was supposed to be Reader x Country), began to sound a lot like Singapore! As in, exactly. Other than the part about her already being England's when America came.

First, Name is an island country. THAT. Is definitely Singapore. Secondly, all the countries featured are on good relations with Singapore. Unfortunately there's no Malaysia or Indonesia because they aren't in the series.... Yet. Hopefully they will.

Next, Singapore used to be a charge of England, which Name is. She is also on very good relations with America now, like Name in the series. Name is also like her in that during World War II, she was being protected by America. Although unlike her, I don't think Singapore fell in love with Germany. At least, I hope not. Even though Singapore's on good terms with Germany now.

Singapore also has good relations with both UK and US and Name is a subject of romantic conflict for UK and US in the fanfiction. Ohohoho~ Although in the fic France french kissed her. Which seems pretty likely for Singapore, even though France is on good terms with her too.

Basically, it shouts Singapore x World. And since Singapore trades and knows almost all the countries, it's very logical. She even knows Canada.

The link to the story is here:
http://www.lunaescence.com/fics/viewstory.php?action=printable&textsize=0&sid=18680&chapter=all#1

Sayon.

[Hetalia] How Violin Pieces Can Be Hetalian Crack

So these are based on my violin pieces.

1. In one of them, the composer was born in Germany. He moved to Vienna, Austria for a short time, but spent most of his career in Hungary.

So basically, Germany dated Austria, but dumped him and hooked up with Hungary...?

2. He was born in Newcastle, England. Afterwards he moved to Germany but ended up in America.

So... USUK anyone, after the crack GerUK?

3. The Italian piece was based off the French "Corrente", which means running movement.

France-oniichan huh.

4. The composer was born in London, and inspired by Cuba's music.

America and Cuba's been getting along then?

And finally, the crack which kept us laughing for quite some time:

A Greek song's description: "The 7/8 metres (3+2+2) makes for some exciting rhythms. It needs to be played incisively around the middle, and quite near to the bridge."

My friend saw something perverted in this.

[Hetalia] How Singapore Views Other Countries

I've been researching on Singapore's Foreign Relations with Other Countries because I wanted to check which pairings made a lot of sense. Like, I know Malaysia x Singapore is popular and very logical, but I want to know what other countries like her.

According to the sources that I looked at, Singapore shares relations with 175 countries. That's a lot, don't you think? Not to mention that despite that she trades with practically every single country in the world, probably. But of all of them, it seems that there are four main countries she knows best: Malaysia, Indonesia, England/United Kingdom and America/USA. Popular, aren't you~?

Apparently Singapore and Malaysia share "complex relations". But it's been getting better. Hmm, a hint huh? And it was fun to hear how "due to obvious geographical reasons" it mattered a lot to Singapore her relationship with Indonesia and Malaysia.

And it was quite surprising, the results. Like, I knew for quite some time that Singapore separated from Malaysia, but I didn't know they actually had a lot of problems with each other. For example, how Singapore keeps drinking Malaysia's water. And how Singapore keeps trying to... No, I'll say this later together with Indonesia.

Indonesia and Singapore have generally good relations. Oho~ But like with Malaysia they have a few disputes over some things, like land reclamation. I love this point, it's awesome. Apparently they're pissing off about how Singapore doesn't give them privacy of space. And like my friend aptly put, "Singapore, do you have like NO concept of personal space? Get offa me!"

PFFT AHAHAHAHAAAAA! Although I think Indonesia x Philippines might be cool too.

They also mentioned that Singapore and England have pretty close ties, considering that once upon a long time Singapore used to be England's. Okay that sounded kind of. But anyway, now they only ever really meet during UN meetings and trade. Personally I think Singapore's still reeling from England's abandoning of her last time~

And America too; they said "share a long-standing and strong relationship". UH WHAAT? I can totally imagine Singapore and America arguing over England's treatment of them. But I have nothing much to say about this pairing because I don't really like it as much as the rest. In my opinion I think that America does like Singapore but Singapore's just using him in a way.

So in conclusion it's mainly Malaysia, Indonesia, England and America fighting for Singapore's affection. What I love to do, though, is to make Singapore a normal person but very cold to others trying to approach her romantically. And no one can blame her, because:

1. Portugal burnt her.
2. England abandoned her.
3. Japan tortured her.
4. Malaysia expelled her.
5. All this was done when she was very vulnerable.

And Malaysia and Indonesia usually fight it out, while England and America fight it out. Although sometimes Malaysia and England fight it out. In terms of the one who's winning, I'd place it as: Malaysia, England, Indonesia and then America.

Though I like to put it so that Singapore has been harbouring unrequited love for England ever since the first time he came to the Malay Archipelago. While her love for Malaysia and Indonesia is more naughty, in a sense. Cough. And with America she kind of regards him as a friend who can provide protection from outside forces. Like maybe France. (Even though apparently she shares good relations with France too... Maybe because she's female?)

As for girlfriends, she is especially close to Taiwan. They apparently like doing dangerous stuff like throwing grenades together. Apparently she's also friends with Belgium, Hungary and Ukraine but not Belarus or Liechtenstein. Sadly.

So here are all of the countries just for the sake of putting it.

1. Brunei
Their currencies are the same.
2. North Korea
3. China
He threatened her before though.
4. Taiwan
She introduced bubble tea to Singapore.
5. Indonesia
First person to ever meet her.
6. Malaysia
Her elder brother by default. Once married.
7. Belgium
8. Denmark
9. France
Somehow.
10. Germany
11. Greece
Strong relations too.
12. Holy See
13. Hungary
14. Italy
Not as much though.
15. Romania
Singapore loves how cheap Romania's stuff is.
16. Russia
Since 1968.
17. Serbia
18. Ukraine
She recognized Ukraine's independence
19. United Kingdom
20. Australia
Free trade for all.
21. Canada
Except America's helping to represent him.
22. Egypt
23. India
Saved her when China threatened her.
24. Iraq
25. Israel
Helped her after Malaysia rejected her.
26. Mexico
27. Pakistan
Considers Singapore a sincere friend.
28. New Zealand
29. South Africa
30. Thailand
31. Japan

There's supposed to be 175 in total, but they only put those in Wikipedia. Yeah.

Sayon.

[Songs] 「Black ★ Rock Shooter」& Cendrillon【サンドリヨン】

They're two songs which I've already known for quite some time, but only recently I've begun to like them very much. I'm planning to try singing Black Rock Shooter. Besides I have a feeling that it might be a song which I can remember the lyrics to.

Black Rock Shooter has really cool lyrics which I like. It's quite poetic. I quite like the concept of the blue fire in Black Rock Shooter's eye, though at first I thought she was Miku cosplaying or something. Even though it's an original concept, but it looks quite unoriginal to me.

Although the OVA is quite illogical in the time frame and also quite illogical how the whole thing basically shows the high-school drama of Mato, Yomi and Yuu. It's called Black Rock Shooter for a reason, you know... They made it so that the alternate world thing seems very extra and just there to contain Black Rock Shooter.

I like Nayuta's cover of Black Rock Shooter even better than Hatsune Miku's version:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iv0hW3-CdUQ

And now, Cendrillon. For some reason I always grouped Cendrillon and Cantarella in the same group and hence always thought Cantarella was a duet too.

The first time I heard it I cast it away easily, but about 2 years later (now) I decided to hear it since it was apparently very popular. It sounds a bit like Flandre Scarlet's theme, UN Owen was Her, to me at first. But after a while I thought it was a brilliantly romantic song. That's how I started crossing over Cendrillon with Singapore x England.

I like Tourai & Usa's version best, though I think Pokota & Hanatan rocks too. I preferred Tourai & Usa's because their voices aren't as mature as Pokota and Hanatan's, so it makes Cinderella and her prince seem more on the teenager side rather than as adults.

As per usual I prefer the covers to the Vocaloids. Here is the link to Pokota & Hanatan's:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_DxPCWRz0A

(I was a bit surprised by how sweet Hanatan's voice sounded since she always seemed more on the mature voice side.)

And Tourai & Usa's:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6sY0fBTbjI

(I like how their voices can be good even if they don't tremble their voices to make it sound mature.)

Sayon.

Why I Hate Going to Church

In about 30 minutes the sermon's going to start, but I don't want to go. I mean like, I have the right to! I'm not Christian! I'm a free thinker who can worship anything I want to!

But my parents force me to go to church even though I just sit there doing absolutely nothing for about 2 entire hours. It's not that the people aren't nice or what, it's just that I find the belief of Christianity somehow very... Stupid.

No offence, Christians.

But to me it feels quite lame. They're always talking about how God made us in his likeliness and how he loves us all, et cetera. (And by the way, calling God a him is already being prejudiced.)

Yet what happens? Just because one single Jew doesn't believe in Jesus Christ, all other Jews are hated. And if they were correct and Jesus really revived from the cross, then there's no harm done! Even if the intention's there. And so, thanks to one simple action like that, when it's not even determined if Jesus is really God's son or whatsoever, what happens? Mad people like Hitler try to wipe out the whole population of Jews and tries to prove that Christianity is best.

That is pure narrow-mindedness. So what if he practices Buddhism, everyone's equal, you might think Catholic is better but that's how the Buddhists think, and you respect that. If God really made all humans to be equal, then why are some religions much worse than others?

And according to all I have heard in church, which is almost nothing but who cares, God says that people who don't believe in him will not get to go to Heaven or something. That's idiotic, really. It means that even if you're an innocent virgin who is well-rounded and loved by everyone, if you don't believe in Christianity you will go to Hell because you're bad.

Doesn't make sense, does it.

And despite everything they've said, in the end it sounds more like God wants us to lick his boots. They have parts where you just sing worship songs, but the lyrics always have something about humans willingly becoming the slave of God, to put it bluntly. And how we will promise to do everything God tells us to, because he's our master, we're the dog and we don't mind murdering Jews just because God told us to do as he commanded.

Something similar may be in other religions, but this post is mainly concentrated on Christianity. Maybe Christians out there will protest against me, but I'm sorry, this is the way I feel and you do anything about it. This dislike for Christianity is somehow rather natural, so even if I do believe in all that I still wouldn't be able to bring myself to like it.

Besides, the part where they sing worship songs sounds a lot like a punk rock concert. It's more like they're taking advantage of the church to show off their amazing singing skills, or whatever skills they have. Which I hate, because even if I don't like Christianity I still feel that they should respect the usage of instruments and respect the church.

And the only thing I really want to do in the church is to play with their instruments, but they only give us lame games rather than the instruments to try.

Sayon.

House Committee!

I went for an interview for House Committee selections today! Actually I'd already applied some time ago but the emails only came in about 3 days ago. Telling a whole bunch of us that we would be interviewed. I have no idea how they picked me. Suppose it was because I managed to not doodle on the paper. Or because I used to chat with them before house practice about anime and the like.

So I was applying for Level Coordinator, Creative Arts (CAD) and Administrator. Because I'm kind of OCD with thanks to influence from my sisters and also artistic thanks to my sisters.

Need to thank her for introducing anime to my life at 5 years old.

So before the interview (at 3.20 or so) I spent my time playing with a... Cello? Double Bass? I forgot. That belonged to a newly-found acquaintance next door. Happily, I play the violin so it was pretty simple except for where to place my fingers and the fact I couldn't see the strings. And we spent a lot of time chatting and stuff since they were also running for House Committee.

(Oh, and I'm in Tarbet, or the Red House. The cello/double bass girl and my ex-friends are in Richardson, the Blue House. I also have a friend in Buckle, the Green House, but I don't think she ran...)

When it was reaching my turn I went there and found the girl right before me (Rachel) camping out there with a Year 3 who was apparently the CAD but I'd never seen her before. Which is alarming since I can remember all of the House Committee by at least face and most of them by name. I even know what they like or where they live for some, like Li Yin likes anime and Min Yan lives in Joo Koon and has an elder sister only one year older.

The door opened to let out Carla, my classmate, so I yelled, "Hi Carla!" and saw Pauline (now the house captain) inside so I waved to her but the door slammed just as she turned her head towards me. How melancholic.

(Shockingly, Rachel went in. Then after a while we heard the sound of "These days are all~ Happy and free~" so we looked in through the small window. We saw her dancing and shuffling for the House Committee. The moment she came out, Carla and her began their dancing spree.)

So it was my turn and I waved to Li Yin who brought me in. The moment I came in the first person I recognized easily was Pauline so I said, "Hi Pauline."

"Ha, she only greeted me."

"Shut up Pauline."

And then they asked a lot of questions and I just acted as normal as I could and imitated the me that they'd always known because I figured that me was the kind of girl they would want. I used a lot of them as examples for my points a lot of times, though I waved at the recording camera before doing anything. Su Yun has a red iPhone to record apparently.

I messed up though, because I put Level Coordinator before CAD though I realized afterwards CAD would have suited me ten times better. But at that time I thought Level Coordinator would suit me because it'd expose me to a large band of people and I'd get to do admin work.

They went through my rushed together art portfolio (which actually had the original copies and even a random Cendrillon fan picture I drew in class that very day, the horror!) and were like, "Did you do this??" when they saw the digital art of Shime that I was working on. They said they'd return it and I hope they do, because I do so want my original arts and I want back the MY-UK-HK picture of them fighting for Singapore's affection.

Yes, I've added Hong Kong to the MYUK love rivals thing. Because I figured one European, one Asian and one Malay Peninsula would be better. Plus Hong Kong and Singapore used to trade even before England colonized both of them anyway.

Anyway, they were like, " Why didn't you put CAD first then??" and I threw out the first answer I could think of. Then the interview was pretty much over. Oh yeah...

Pauline: Do you have any questions?

Me: ...

Me: Yeah... What's her name again? -points-

Girl (Kelly apparently): ...

Vanessa: That's Kelly.

Me: Oh yeahh.

And they asked me to draw a shirt design involving a cow in ten minutes. So I drew one shirt with a cow nad there were captions saying, "I am Cow/Hear me MOO". Author notes below said, "LI YIN REMEMBER THIS SOOOONG?"

Another one was a rap song design.

[Start transcript]
I can be found at
Marche's [A/n: Spelt wrongly, I spelt Mache in the design]
-Picture of some Marche logo-
And I'm cool and red over
There
-picture of red colour-
And I'm so cow-ly red that I'm from
Tarbet <3
[End transcript]

Also put author notes, "I <3 Marche! They have cows there but they're taller than me though."

And last one was rushed out because I knew Mengge was coming out soon (I'd heard some cheering inside from the House Comm but didn't dare check why they were cheering) and I decided to just make one more. A girl cosplaying as a cow in a tophat and a sleeveless and strapless one piece dress down to right above her knees. Caption: "Cow cosplay anyone?"

Heh.

That pretty much sums it up, other than how I spent 1 hour or more talking to Zhi Rui, the girl with the cello/ double bass. She apparently drew a genie with a triangle head.

(Tarbet's mascot is a cow; Richardson's is a genie. That's why.)

And other than all the Facebook comments of course.

Sayon.

[Cover] Chain Girl

After two entire days of working I managed to come up with something reasonable. The song is by Hatsune Miku and called Chain Girl. The context is about a girl who feels like she has no freedom and someone (presumably God) is just using (letting her live?) her because he/she/it's using her like a doll. She's frustrated and lonely, and wants them to unchain her.

I don't know how but I managed to memorize the lyrics easily. It seems I memorize easier when the lyrics remind me of myself, like You and Beautiful World and now, Chain Girl.

I put two voices together because I couldn't decide which one was better. The first one was rather assertive but kind of too rough and the second one was very passive but flat sometimes. So I tried putting them together and surprisingly, the two voices cancelled out the worst of each other!

Afterwards I deleted the incurable parts (like hoarseness, off-tune, wrong lyrics) and rerecorded. I'm really glad I got the hang of Audacity; it proved extremely useful as I removed as much background noise as possible, mixed seven audio tracks together and deleted out poorly done parts. It was very fun to record twice for everything I tell you.

Sayon.

[Songs] Exec Ar Tonelico

Recently I've found myself hooked onto hymms from Ar Tonelico.

Ar Tonelico is a game which sounds a lot like a fighting RPG and dating sim put together, but it's not. The fighting RPG thing is still there, but you play as the human and you're not supposed to date your counterparts, known as Reyvateils. All Reyvateils are female so in comes the common female harem in video games.

Even though I've heard the game sucks and I don't like female harems, but I do like the hymms they sing. I especially like Akiko Shikata's hymms, though I'm okay with Mitose Noriko and Shimotsuki Haruka. Exec Chronicle Key and Exec Flip Arphage are absolutely my favourites, I can't get bored of them~

I've also discovered that Exec Chronicle Key is a nice song to play when it's raining heavily. Try someday, it just gives you this really nice feeling. Exec Flip Arphage is more hardcore after the quiet beginning and a lot of people use it for HetaOni AMVs. Or whatever Movie Video it is.

I insert here a picture of Misha, the girl who is supposedly singing when it's actually Akiko singing. I don't think she's very pretty, but I do like Akiko's voice very much.

The Yin/Yang things in her hair are the only things that really make her ugly, other than that she's not so bad. Well, maybe something can be done about the pigtails coming out of the tomoe hairbands in her hair. Akiko sings Exec Chronicle Key under the guise of Misha.

Akiko Shikata also sings for another Reyvateil named Saki. Saki's supposedly the one singing Exec Flip Arphage.

Since I'm on it, I'll put the two other heroine Reyvateils here, and come to think of it, the antagonist too.

This one's Aurica. There's a song named Exec Purger which both Misha and Aurica sing but they have different versions for both of them. I don't really like her hymm singer, but Aurica's quite pretty though.

I find Shurelia's clothes kind of disturbing, but I like the translucent petal-like things at the top of her boots. It's quite cool even if it's not ideal for wearing. She's supposed to be over 700 years old, which is plain creepy but it's always like that.

And this is, or was, the antagonist. Her name is, or was, Mir. The picture I upload, however, is the so-called reborn her, rechristened as Jacqli. Weird name, don't you think? But I guess it has some meaning in another language.

I say Jacqli's dress is cool even if she doesn't look that pretty.

Sayon.

Facebook Parodies

I haven't posted in a while because nothing much's been happening since it's the holidays. I don't want to go back to school, I haven't done my homework... Heck.

So I dug this out. My sister gave it to me a few years back, before Hetalia began to influence me.

Oh the Hetalia.

Hints of FrUK and GerIta? Oh my gay. And Holland supports FrUK, apparently.

Sayon.

[Cover] Meltdown + Carrot and Stick

Actually I sang Carrot and Stick before Meltdown, but I uploaded Meltdown first. So I shall put it in order of the uploading.

But I think I did better for Carrot and Stick.

For some reason I can't find it on Youtube so I'm uploading here. I can't do the Belarus raspy evil voice thing but I'm happy with how I sang for Ukraine. Bela sounds kind of weird in the first part because I just switched voice from Ukraine to Belarus so she actually sounds gentle.

Creepy as hell.

Sayon.

OC Singapore's Shimeji

So I got caught up in the Shimeji craze and began making a Shimeji for Singapore! Hurray!

And I noticed this cool thing. Did you know for the image files for Shimejis they name them "shime1", "shime2", etc? Well, I realized that Shime can be a good nickname for Singapore! Because in Japanese the first sound for "Singapore is "shi" and in Japanese "princess" is "hime". So put those two together and you get Shime! Not to mention it reminds me of "shiro", which is white.

 Picture of Singapore sitting

 Singapore of Singapore falling

This really random picture I made.

Apparently reminds people of nyan cats.

At the rate I work it should take me about 3 more days, meanwhile I'll try to see if it can work!

Sayon.

Singapore Shimeji!

So I've been inspired by Hetalia Shimejis and am making a Shimeji of OC Singapore! Will work on Lili after that too.
I'm using my phone to update. Tomorrow I'll post the current design.

Teacher's Day

Today is September 1st, the day when the church bells ring. Well actually it's Teachers' Day. So I decided to just try making something to give to the teachers. You know, handmade to show the effort in it, et cetera, et cetera.

It was actually pretty disgusting how I made it.

I made this stupid thing:

Ingredients:

1/6 lump of butter (the kind that comes in rectangles)

200ml (or so) of water

1/7 tin of condensed milk (I'm estimating here)

Sugar (you decide yourself how much you want)

2 Eggs (Mother's suggestion)

2 Teaspoons of Starch (Mother's suggestion)

1. Firstly, pour the water into a metal pan/whatever you wanna make it in.

2. Put the butter in.

3. Put it in the oven and heat it up before dissolving the butter.

4. Take it out once all the butter has been dissolved.

5. Repeat steps 2 to 4, only replace the butter with sugar.

6. Pour condensed milk in. The water should be hot enough to dissolve it.

7. Make sure that the butter, sugar and milk are all dissolved into the water.

(From here on is with my mother's help)

8. Crack the eggs and beat them.

9. Pour the egg into the mixture and mix them together.

10. Add some water to the starch to get starch water.

11. Pour the starch water inside and mix.

12. Microwave the mixture till its texture becomes like jelly.

13. Bake it in the oven to remove any excess water.

The result looks like this:

Not too bad for a first try at cooking. The texture is rather like that of pudding/jelly/custard/egg tart. It's a bit burnt at the top, as you can see... After I finished baking there was still a lot of excess oil, which was pretty disgusting so I poured away as much as I could without pouring out the... Whatever it is.

Actually the recipe was based off the recipe for Scottish Tablets because I couldn't find any flour and had to do without it. But the proportions of the ingredients and the heating method was really different so I ended up with... This.

One of my classmates was amazing to enough to guess that there was condensed milk and eggs inside the thing. Sad thing is, one thought it was egg tart, another pudding, yet another custard, and my mom reckoned it was guei (this thingy kind of like mooncakes, only much softer and less flashy). But at least they said it tasted nice.

I had the time of my life doing these:

1. Holding up the knife I used to cut it and going to other people while smiling innocently.

2. Talking to the teachers:
Me: "Would you like some?"
Teacher: "What's this?"
Me: "I have no idea."

3. Inviting my senior to come over and have some by saying innocently, "By the way, why don't you drop by my class and try some of this thing I made that I don't know what it is but I think it's edible."

4. Going around looking around suspiciously and conspicuously hiding a shiny knife.

5. Saying, "Everyone thinks I'm a mass-murderer just because I'm holding a knife!" with a pitiful look on my face, while I wave the knife around dangerously.

Yeah, knives and mysterious food are really fun to use to manipulate others.

And I told the Geography teacher this:
"Do you have a niece called Sze Min who likes dragons and likes to draw?"
"Yeah, how do you know her?"
"We're friends."
Cue WTH look from teacher.

I should do more of these someday.

Sayon.

[Hetalia] Singapore's Remembrance of England

A Fan-made Fanfiction


PART ONE

"And explain why we're here right now?" England asked France irritably. The countries were having a break from all that paperwork and had went on the trip together, but the first place France dragged them to was a freaking casino.

France smirked at England's pissed face. "Angleterre, it has been a long time since any of us has gone gambling, has it not?"

"Where is this casino anyway?" England muttered to himself. Apparently it was rather new, even if it was one of the most successful by now. They entered the casino and were met with polite ushers and usherettes. "Bet France isn't very happy that she takes so much care in hiring the 'correct' type of workers," Denmark whispered to Norway.

"Shut up, not like you're allowed to smoke here either," Norway whispered back harshly. 'She', huh? So it must be a female nation then? England counted off Hungary, Liechtenstein, Belarus, Ukraine, Belgium, Vietnam, Taiwan, Seychelles. Can't be any of these, either too underdeveloped or they just don't seem the type.

As they took a seat at one of the roulette tables, the game progressed quickly and England forgot about the mysterious identity of the nation as he pissed off at America and France.

... ... ...

She washed her face at the sink. Too long hours working, but she knew she could handle it. She'd handled worst than that before, after all...

"Good work all of you. continue working hard," she smiled encouragingly at her people. Truthfully she wasn't really supposed to be working there since she was the nation, but she wanted to make sure everything was fine.

The moment she stepped out of the rest quarters for the workers, her personality changed. A calm and polite female carefully served drinks, slyly responding to the moves of some of the stupider people who didn't know who they were messing with. She just had the ability to change her character to suit the occasion nowadays.

As she surveyed the casino to make sure that everything was working out smoothly, she noticed in annoyance that one table was particularly noisy. She recognized one of the people there as Italy, since he was currently eating pasta. That must be the table with the nations who were coming today, she mused.

Wait, eating pasta? She jumped. No one was allowed to eat in the casino! She made her way over to the table, controlling her anger, since she was supposed to be the perfect role models of ushers at the current moment.

... ... ...

Feliciano chomped on his pasta happily. "Can't you do anything other than eat pasta, Feliciano?" Romano asked his brother angrily. Germany facepalmed as Japan sat there awkwardly. After all, Japan wasn't really one to gamble.

"Excuse me, sir. Would you mind putting down that plate of pasta?" A quiet but firm voice came. Feliciano looked up to see a rather polite and calm usherette speaking to him.

"Eh? But I mind," Feliciano replied stupidly. Romano facepalmed this time.

The usherette cleared her throat. "I apologize for not being clear. Kindly do not eat in the casino since it is against the rules. If you do not comply I will be forced to take measures against you. If you wish to eat, please go outside and eat before coming back into here."

France wolf-whistled. Romano gazed at her in awe. "Ve? Okay then!" Feliciano left the room, bringing his pasta with him.

The female looked around the table with slightly calculative eyes as everyone stared silently at her. When she met England's gaze, her eyes widened slightly, but she quickly recovered.

"I apologize for interrupting your game. Please continue. Do not hesitate to call any of us should you require assistance, though the workers are obliged to report anything unusual you might ask of them," she emphasized, looking at France while she said so.

France didn't take the hint, instead smiling at her seductively. If she was attracted or repelled, she didn't show it. Instead, she bowed curtly and walked away. "That was a pleasant lady, oui? Although she seems a bit young to be in here," France commented.

About who knows how long later.

"That was the most awesome game ever!" Prussia yelled, not bothering to keep his volume down. Apparently he hasn't noticed that he's not supposed to be alive anymore either. England didn't say anything, too lost in thought to even drink the tea that stood there for him already.

"We're going to meet the nation who made this wonderful casino now, da?" Russia said happily. Happily because underage people/nations were not allowed and the age limit was 21. Belarus was 19. Well actually lots of countries were underage, but somehow they got smuggled in.

They all nodded in agreement. And maybe if they got on good terms with the nation, she'd give them a discount when they went to play in the other parts of her land. If possible she could get her big brother to give a discount too.

The countries waited in a rather elegant room in the Parliament House for the host nation to arrive. "Quite impolite of her to make us wait, don't you think?" Spain said cheerily. The other countries all ignored him.

Just then, an usherette ran into the room, gaining the attention of everyone. "I'm so sorry, I was busy," she panted as she leaned against the doorframe. Everyone was quite surprised as to the presence of an usherette. "Who're you and why are you here?" Germany asked very bluntly.

The youthful female blinked, before looking down at her clothes. "Ah, I forgot to change." She ran out again, before coming back in a black skirt with a yellow tank top with straps. Then she sat down, sweating slightly due to the heat.

"So... You're the host nation aru?" China asked.

She blinked at him. "Who else would I be?" That sent everyone into an uproar.

"But you were wearing usherette's clothes!"

"I envy your youth."

"What kind of nation dresses so simply, heck?" No one noticed as France slipped out of the room quietly.

She rolled her eyes. "In case you didn't know, we'd die of heatstroke if we dressed like you everyday. In fact, the temperature now is about 32 degrees Celsius now, you realize? Oh right, this room is air-conditioned."

Russia smiled. "Wow, what a wonderfully warm temperature, da? It's always so cold in my country... What's your name again?" She sighed.

She leaned back in her chair and crossed her arms. "My name is Singapore," she said casually.

England slammed down the cupful of tea that had been prepared for him beforehand and stood up. His pupils were a bit dilated as he sweated profusely, staring at Singapore. She made no response except to flick her black hair, tied in a loose ponytail, backwards.

He slowly sat back in his chair as everyone stared. "Sorry," he muttered. "Continue."

Just then, there was a loud sound, like an explosion, from outside. Singapore jumped up. "Think someone's trying to invade me again! Sorry, just hang on a while." She immediately left, throwing the room into silence.

"... Let's go watch or something." "Agreed." They all ran out of the door to see the commotion.

PART TWO

France was standing, oh so high and mighty, in the direction opposite from the Parliament House. And facing him was a rather pissed Singapore. "Pervert, haven't you anything better to do than try to get girls?" France smirked. "A pretty young girl like you should just be mine. Besides it's probably not that hard to take over your land."

Singapore gritted her teeth and called her army to her aid. "No use fighting, your army's insanely small, I can finish them easily," France called out to Singapore, who had somehow managed to change into a green military uniform, quite similar to England's temperate/tropical military uniform. "Besides, what are you doing wearing such an ugly uniform anyway?"

"Don't look down on me," Singapore said quietly, dangerously. "Even if I'm quite weak, my people are strong." With that, she looked France straight in the eye. "I think you forgot that even if my army's small, but practically all men have gone through training. Oh, and I forgot to mention, some women."

(Meanwhile, in Jurong.)

A forty-year-old man threw his spatula at the invading French. His little daughter took the opportunity to attack the Frenchman directly in the face.

"No, my beautiful face!" He cried, stumbling back. "How do you even know how to attack anyway?" The little girl shrugged. "My parents send me for karate classes. About all parents do that," she answered before knocking him out.

The lack of freedom to use guns in Singapore had probably gotten to the people's heads. They were creative enough to use woks, knives, pens and laksa to attack the invaders now.

(Back to Parliament House.)

"I'm not letting you go without paying me for the hospital fees," Singapore replied calmly, before pulling out a HK-MP4-A3 and a .22 revolver. "Mademoiselle, you have been influenced by Switzerland," France sighed before pulling out his own gun. Yes he has a gun, using a sword in these days won't get him anywhere.

Singapore evaded nimbly with her light figure as she dodged all the bullets sent her way. She leapt down from the top of the Parliament House and ended in a kneeling position on the ground. Her rifle was poised perfectly as she quickly took aim and fired.

She left the rifle in continuous fire and held the trigger as she followed the running Frenchman. "Mademoiselle, I know I am very exquisite, but you do not need to be jealous!" France squealed as he ran as fast as he could.

"Shut up," Singapore said, before swapping to her .22 revolver, standing up and taking aim sideways. Switzerland would have been mightily proud, only he had no part in her life anyway. "Fine, I'll pay, I'll pay! Just stop and I'll leave!" France surrendered. Singapore ceased fire and France ran away immediately after throwing some jewels to Singapore's feet.

"Should we chase after him?" A sergeant asked Singapore formally.

"No, leave him. No point in chasing after him, he's already left anyway," Singapore answered, before heading back to change. During that whole exchange everyone was gaping at her. All except for England, who had a pained look on his usually angry face.

PART THREE

"Are you sure you don't need any treatment?" Hungary looked at the younger female in concern. Singapore shook her head, smiling. "I've suffered worse," she offered as her reply. "Why don't you go ahead and play in Sentosa or something? I'll get someone to escort you there," she offered. Everyone looked eager. "But why can't you do it yourself, da?" Russia asked.

"Got to clear up after you all messed up the room," she pointed out. But they insisted on her bringing them there so she compromised by sending them on a tour of the Parliament while she cleared up.

After a while she realized that England was still there, but just pursed her lips and ignored him as he observed her. It was when she was clearing up the tea that he spoke to her.

"You still remember that I like my tea made from Ceylon black tea leaves," England stated casually. Singapore made not much response, except to continue clearing. Then she answered, "If I didn't know after all those years, I'm a failure."

"So, how have you been?" England struggled for words.

"Pretty okay, Tony just got elected President and he's quite okay." There was a silence. England broke it.

"Do... You ever long for the old days?" Singapore twitched at the question.

"Once I remember what you did to me during World War II, I can't help but wish I'd never known you," Singapore said coldly. England fumbled for words. "We-Well, I'm sorry... I know you probably can't forgive me, but please?"

"I've already forgiven you. Why else would you be the one doing most economic business with me?"

England walked over to her, bent down and stared into her defiant black eyes. "Anyone can tell that you still don't really forgive me," he said quietly. Singapore pushed him away angrily and turned away.

"Duh, anyone can tell, of course lah!" Singapore snapped as England twitched at her usage of the improper "Singlish". Was she trying to spite him? "When Japan came, you fought, so I thought it was okay... But not even halfway into the battle, you left and abandoned me..."

Singapore trembled. "And then Japan kept torturing my people, especially the Chinese. And when we tried to help China, he killed them all."

"My people weren't even given enough food to eat," Singapore said as she paced around. "Not to mention they got beaten up everyday, even the children. And did you know," she said with burning eyes as she turned to face England, "that at least 50 000 people died? At least?"

"I-I tried! I told them to continue fighting for you till the very last man!"

England bit his lip as Singapore smiled bitterly. "They didn't listen to you did they? Incompetent fool, trying to push the blame?" England hung his head as he listened to her. It was all true.

He felt Singapore coming up to him, probably to slap him. Instead, her delicate hands touched his face, before she tiptoed and gently kissed his right cheek. England's eyes widened in shock as Singapore whispered softly into his ear, "This is for the time when I adored you to the point of admiration."

She turned abruptly and walked away, remembering to snatch up the teacup as she left. England stood there frozen, his hands still touching the spot where Singapore had kissed him. It was exactly the same as where she used to kiss him before the war.

It would probably be the last time she kissed him.

EPILOGUE

Singapore stopped in the middle of an isolated corridor, still recovering from suddenly flouncing out like that. "It's... Been a long time, huh..." She whispered to herself.

She used to be a child who adored England so much, she'd done everything she could for him. Now she spent her days putting on masks: a calm usherette, a cheery nation, a ruthless fighter.

Always changing herself so that the child in her wouldn't come back and no one would ever be able to take advantage of her. So that she would never have to remember the pain of betrayal, never getting too close to anyone, not even Malaysia anymore.

She buried her face in her hands. "And now thanks to you, I can't tell who is me anymore..."

Fin.

I swear, the 50k people dying is correct as long as my sources are correct! ... Which they probably aren't. Thanks to England, Singapore suffers multiple-personality disorder or something now huh... Actually England/Singapore could make a straight pairing.

Hmm. I'll write in to Himaruya-san asking him to publish Singapore or something. And hint heavily to make her a girl. Luckily my Japanese isn't too bad, though it's very bad.

Sayon.