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Oh. Give me a room.

What do you think? I'm fast worker.

When the rain is over When darkness comes Along the wall of unending desire

The butterflies spread their wings Fluttering for true love

My teeth are as beautiful as diamonds.

Bye, Sheila.

You can go now.

You're a new kiddie boy, come on.

You like it?

No.

You know, sailor boy, just sleep a little bit longer.

When your ship reaches Vietnam, you won't get to sleep at all.

It's supposed to pay for pussy, but I got your faggot ass instead.

Where's my other fucking shoe?

Damn your fucking shoe. Hey, you know what you're playing with. You got me

from Boogie Street, all right? I know you're a sailor and go-talking and all

that, but don't fuck with me. Pay up! Pay up!

Don't you?

Don't fuck with me.

Hey, my pussy's as good as any of that and you enjoy that, okay?

You don't pay up, I'll call the police.

You know,

you were a good friend.

We could even become really good friends. I mean, even by your presence.

But too bad you're leaving Singapore.

But next time you and your little dick come back, come and pay me a visit

sometime, okay?

Where did you put my fucking shoe?

It's under there, stupid.

They are my police.

Do you still want to fuck them?

Money, please?

You go from Malacca?

Yeah, my name is Lian.

Are you Mrs. Wee? Yeah, welcome to Sing Sing Hotel.

It's not like this every day, lah.

I come, I show you around.

Dear Maria, now it is already December.

Are you snowing now?

It must be beautiful to have snow.

Here it's still hot.

And I am in an exotic new place called Singapore.

Quite unlike Malacca, it's so cosmopolitan.

Here I work in a big hotel with lots of interesting people.

This morning as I arrived... I witnessed a sad departure of an American gentleman

and a Chinese girl.

It was so sad, so touching, but so lovely.

It's just like the world of Suzy Wong.

The future looked shining brightly for me, but dear Maria, I still miss the

simple days I spent in Malacca.

I have to tell you this secret.

The day I left the house, my young master actually cried for me.

Please keep this a secret from me.

Yours, dearly, Leah.

What are you doing?

I'm washing your clothes. No, no. I don't want to make a mess.

Get out.

Get out.

Thank you. You're welcome to Boston and the town.

Thank you.

You must be that new girl who just came from Malacca yesterday, yes?

My name is Liam.

You're so cute.

Well, if you need any more help, you can call me.

Okay.

You like my plant? Come, take a look.

You have such a beautiful view here.

Thank you. You know, I need this balcony to make my plants grow.

I like to see small things grow bigger.

You didn't catch that, did you?

Anyway, if you want to enjoy my view longer, clean my room for a longer time,

okay?

Come, let me show you how to water my plants.

Take a bit of it. Come.

Hi, darling.

I bought some doolans.

Baby, you're back.

Lian, this is my precious boy, Ming.

I miss you.

Hey, you're new here.

Yeah, my name is Leon.

Well, you're going to have a good time.

Thank you.

You're new here? Yes, you're Mr. White. Don't clean up my room now.

What? What

is Leland

Priest's love?

I want a room.

By the day, by the hour, please.

How would you charge?

One hour, three dollars. One day, also three dollars.

In that case, a day, of course.

You must pay first.

No problem.

Thank you.

Toilet and shower on your left.

If you go at night, we close the door, but not long. Just bring your key.

Because if you go too late, we'll all sleep already.

You're too busy to sign your name.

Room

203,

key please.

Are you Dr. Tu?

Why? You mean I look different?

You have mail.

Thank you.

May I ask you something?

Yes, what do you want to know?

If someone eats a cockroach, what should he do?

Well, he should join the gourmet club. And no more questions. Thank you.

Wake up!

Give me a room.

By the day or by the hour? Shut up!

Are you new here?

2.05.

Give me a bowl of noodles and sell it to me in half an hour's time. More sesame

oil. Understand?

Keep the change.

Did you just join a gourmet club?

Put it down.

What's the big deal?

Wait, Lien.

Lien, where are you going?

I don't know.

Back to Malacca.

Don't go.

You have to forgive them. You know, some people are not the same as others.

And I promise they're harmless.

Come back with me, please.

All right.

You can go now.

Dear Maria, the letter I sent you yesterday almost became my last letter

in Singapore.

So many things happened in one night that I couldn't even believe myself.

But I will have the courage to face it. I tell you, all the ladies in this hotel

are men.

Don't you think I really need the courage to face them?

Don't be angry.

I scared you so much yesterday, didn't I? It's okay.

Sometimes people like us are like this. We play too much.

Don't be angry.

This is for you.

Thank you.

This is for Uncle Chen.

Uncle. Here, give a red envelope to your sister to buy candy.

Here you go. Thank you, Uncle.

How are you today?

You look so healthy.

We've got more for you to do. For you.

Do it nicely, please.

Oh, what is it that you're wearing?

It's Lola's. No, it's Lola's boyfriend.

Do you know to blow?

Yeah. What I mean is...

taking all day.

You guys are so annoying.

Throw this one.

Dear Maria, I tell you a surprise news this time.

Maggie gave me a gift the other night.

I was so touched and it was so beautiful that I never wanted to open it.

It is my first gift in my life.

I should treasure it always.

But of course, the gift that young master gave me doesn't count.

Those are the secrets between us, right?

Oh, I forgot to tell you.

Lola's boyfriend showed his body to me.

And it's so disgusting.

I think I still prefer poet to muscle man.

Do you agree?

Sing Sing Hotel?

Yes, we have room.

I want Seeker to tell you girls about sad change.

After my sad change,

Morning I woke up, aiyo. But all of a sudden I realized my car is gone, oh my

god.

I shot a doctor, where's my car?

I want my car back. Doctor said, no, no, no, your car is gone.

Gone forever lah.

But I want goodness to tell you, you're going to have sex every day for the next

six months to keep your vagina hole open.

And the most boring is, aiyo, the rubber equipment.

You're so long, seven inches.

I can throw you away.

I'm a boyfriend.

All the time have sex.

Then I discover a place.

Here, right here.

That's a boogie street.

Yes.

Okay, earn a lot of money. Save a lot of money every night.

Every night.

Oh, so good. So lovely.

And then realize.

I'm still a good girl.

I was told by a daughter to do so.

Now, I want to tell you my darkening secret.

I want to be a queen of the queens.

And everybody's dream to be a queen.

To be a pretty pageant queen.

To be a movie queen.

And to get married with Prince to be a real queen.

It's not easy to be a queen.

You can't leave home without makeup and let them see your ugly face.

You get to put a lot of jewelry.

See, like mine?

It's fake wine. Nobody knows.

Every year, I join beauty contests in Boogie Street. And every year, I lose.

I get fed up to join beauty contests.

But trust me.

One day, I will be a queen of Boogie Street.

And I will be queen of the queen.

They said,

let's play mahjong at home. Okay, let's play mahjong.

Come in.

Oh, this is a movie camera.

Since you're in this room, you know what? We are going to dress you up and

you have to tell us your deepest secrets, okay? Come on. You know what my

friend gave you?

Yes. Now, how shall we dress you up?

Anyhow, you all like her.

So many.

I'll tell you one.

In Malacca, young master.

So young, so handsome, so rich.

So many women.

But young master only crazy about me.

Other mates got jealous. That's why I come here.

Do all your dirty laundry and underwear.

No,

I like you all.

You're very nice to me.

But when young master come, I will hire all of you to be my maid and do my dirty

laundry and underwear.

Lola,

why you tell me your deep secrets, huh?

My darkest secret?

I'm afraid I'll wake up one morning and my breath would disappear.

Just joking.

My secret.

I hate Meng.

I hate him so much. I'm so happy he's not around.

Yeah? He lies to me. He cheats me.

Sometimes he beats me. Yeah?

He even goes off with other women. I'm not stupid.

I picked him up when I was 18 at Bookie Street.

I was such a flower then.

Everyone wanted me.

You know, there was this rich gentleman from Switzerland who wanted to marry me.

Yes! I would be living in his big house with lots of servants.

I would be so grand.

Not only did I give up everything for Meng, I even educated him. I taught him

the finer things in life.

Everything he wears, I bought him.

I bought him jewelry.

I paid his bills. I paid his gambling debts.

I hate him.

I hate him so much. I'm so happy he's not around.

I forgot my sunglasses.

Yeah, bathroom.

Thank you.

Anybody here?

May I help you?

This is my passport.

Don't be surprised. The sex is male.

And the name is Dragon.

And I'd like to have a room with a view.

By the day or by the hour? It's timeless.

It all depends how long I will stay.

And by the way, these are my luggage.

Do handle with care. They're from Paris.

They're Louis Vuitton.

You are the most well-dressed receptionist I've ever seen, especially

in this kind of a place.

Where you come from?

I come from a land that you can only dream of.

What kind of man of life?

The kind of man that I like, but not like someone like you.

By the way, this is my name card. There's a lot you can learn from me.

What a grin.

Sour grip.

Luggage, please.

Oh, whenever I come back to Singapore, it's the monsoon season.

Today, I'm going to teach you French cooking.

Escargot.

First, you have to wash the escargot.

Make sure it's clean so that you will not have tummy upset.

Listen here.

Stop playing with food. It's very rude.

Next, you have to grind the garlic.

Mix it with butter.

It will reach pain and then shove it into the escargot.

It's very Parisian.

What? Very Parisian. People from Paris.

And now I'm going to make my salad while you wash the escargot. Tell me something

about Paris.

Paris.

Paris. Paris.

Oh, Paris.

It is the end of dreams.

For people like us, there is freedom, glamour, spirituality,

physicality, and there is this big boulevard called Champs-Élysées.

And there is, after all, it is, let's wow the

stars. It shines so brightly throughout the whole of Paris.

Sometimes,

When I look at Boogie Street, it reminds me so much of Arc de Triomphe, shining

for people like us over the whole of the universe.

Like what?

Beautiful? I was born beautiful.

Not everybody has the opportunity to come out of their closet.

Some don't.

And these days, it is sad.

People don't live life for themselves.

Are you a lesbian, Leanne?

Are you okay?

What's the problem?

I don't know.

I don't know what's the problem.

Why? What always must be me?

Why am I always the unlucky one?

It's so difficult to survive.

It's enough.

It's enough. I've got enough already.

Girls, we've all been men before.

We know it is so difficult to battle the women for their men. That is why I'm

here to share with you my beauty secrets.

Today, it will be Bute Dubaz.

You're so beautiful like my long-lost sister from Africa.

And for you, your eyebrows, they need polishing. And as for this,

they have potential, but with Bute Dubaz, you reach the stars.

As for you, my child, you've always looked so glam.

You are the epitome of oriental beauty.

What a beautiful ring!

But with this, your exterior comes alive.

Girls, we are all born beautiful, but we need beauty aids.

And the two of you, you are so obscene.

Pay attention if you want to be lady.

Is it very, very expensive?

It's never expensive to pay for beauty, but if all of you are interested, I have

a cheaper range.

It's Boutet du Bas II.

It's just the same function, but it takes a long time.

You want quick result, don't you, girls?

That's why I recommend...

In one month, you get breath like mine.

You like my perfume?

Yesterday, I'm so gucci-poohing.

You want me to get it for you?

You like it?

Yes.

You like my scratches?

I'll give you more.

Come

to the

bank.

I want some money.

Later.

No.

You don't be naughty when I'm gone, okay?

Ask Lin to change her light bulb. Don't forget it.

I'm coming!

I come to change light bulb.

I come to change light bulb.

Where's the light?

There.

Light bulb's okay.

Please, you're leaning too close.

Do you like my body?

Light bulb's okay.

I'm going.

I'm going to make them naked tonight.

It

doesn't

work at all.

Oh, so sad. They're gone.

They're so handsome and the body just thrives on them.

They're gone.

No, they're coming back in.

Which one do you like, Sophie?

Please, love.

I'm not as cheesecake as you.

I love them all.

Just forget, right? You told me to be a lesbian show for free.

I'm so asshole.

I want to eat for free.

Please, okay? Please, just once and for all. Please, okay?

So, for you, you know, I'm going to take out your big, small arms around my body,

your broad chest, your tight butt against my face.

Let's go upstairs again.

No. I want more of you.

Hi, Anne.

Hey, if you're going shopping, you want anything?

See you later.

Thank you.

Don't you want my autograph?

I will. Maybe next time, right?

First, please.

Hello, Missy. Hi, you're here again. You brought life here. Yes, I'm here to see

my mummy.

How are you? Hi.

How are you? You look gorgeous.

Use potato bars.

It will help you in your career.

Look what it's done for mine.

What is potato?

Potato bars.

I'll tell you later.

Hello, Mommy.

Hi, my dear. I brought you fruit.

Thank you.

And how have you been keeping?

Fine. Have they been treating you well, Mommy? Yes. You look so pretty today.

Thank you, Mommy. It's a little makeup YSL.

Yang Xiao Ling. You're so popular here, my dear. I know, Mommy. Each time when I

come and visit you, they want to take pictures with me.

It makes me feel like a movie star.

Come in.

Coffee, dear buddy?

You can put my coffee at my dresser.

And come and have a look.

What's that?

A picture frame my mother gave me.

So pretty.

Isn't she lovely?

I used to hear people say that she was beautiful and from a wealthy family.

No. I used not to believe that too.

Pictures don't lie, do they?

And your father?

Don't talk about him.

He left us when I was six.

Such a wicked man he is.

And my poor beautiful mother suffered silently.

She just don't tell.

A lot of men came for her.

Men in big cars.

Beautiful faces.

In suits and hats. She didn't want to go.

Silly woman.

She chose to suffer.

But suffer for a good reason. She gave birth to me.

She didn't mind me.

For what I am, she said to me, Mother Norbert.

I said, well, thankful for you.

So cute.

That's me.

And that's my little sister.

Don't you think I'm prettier?

Let me tell you my secret.

When I was young, I used to like to look at men, men with muscles,

like Hercules.

Tarzan.

Steve Reeves.

Don't you like muscles?

Why not?

Ugly.

Let me tell you about my first love.

When I was 16, I fell in love.

In love not with a muscle man, but with an old man.

To me, it was love.

So he, he wasn't sure that a younger person could love an older person.

He said, go back and think about it.

So I went back, I thought about it, and I came back and I said, I love you.

And after two months, he dumped me.

That much for love, and that much for older, balding men.

How do you know if you're in love?

When you are in love, it's like a butterfly flying non-stop

in your tummy.

I don't want a butterfly in my tummy.

Yes, you do someday.

And it's not every day you get that feeling.

Today, I will show you the paradise of budding young creatures.

See anyone you like, Leanne?

I forgot.

You are a real girl, shy and demure, not like us.

A little fake.

I used to play a game, a secret game.

If you see a boy that you like and make a wish, count to three, and if he turns

back and smiles at you, he is yours for the taking.

Go straight. Go straight.

Go for it.

Come on. Let's go somewhere.

Have you ever been in love with a little girl?

Is that a yes or no?

What kind of man do you like?

I used to like the romantic, poetic type.

But now I think most of men like Tarzan or Casey.

You learn first and it's competition.

No, love.

You know, in Malacca, my young master is still waiting for me.

Very lucky girl.

You like what you see today, yeah?

Hello, ladies and gentlemen.

Hello, beauties. More beauty tips for you.

Beauty tips? Yes.

What have you done to my breasts?

What happened to your breasts?

Are you trying to cheat us?

Oh, I won't dare. Put your body back, you bitch.

You have to be more ladylike, little girl.

You think you are a lady. Ow! Ow!

What are you doing? How can I be a beauty queen when my breasts look like

this? Ow! Ow!

Dear, dear Maria, I finally found it.

He smiles at me, he talks to me, he dates me.

I'll tell you more some other time.

This is just a short note to tell you I am in love.

And to tell you from today onwards, I am a woman.

But don't think anything wicked.

I am still pure as a lamp.

You just have to take my word for it.

give new life to your face, rouge, mascara, and luscious red lips.

My face. It's fine. Calm down. I'm going to give your body a new body, a new

concept.

I've got no clothes on.

Calm down.

And now, I'm going to give you a new hairstyle to be like Queen of Heiji,

Great Patron.

That's why you have yelled.

You can scratch it.

The night comes alive for you.

So come on, little butterfly.

Quietly.

Quietly.

Quietly.

We have something for a noun.

Ladies and gentlemen, we present Snow White.

Look at her.

That's a pretty little girl.

Isn't she? We're going to make a lot of money.

Remember, and it's not better than your background.

I have to go now. Bye!

It's you!

Where are you?

I came to change the light bulb.

You're Leon.

Oh, you look big.

No. Get me that.

It's real this time.

Why is it every time I see you, you're always in your underwear?

Do you like it?

Like it or not, it's none of your business.

And now I know the rewards of makeup and the price I have to pay.

It gives me the courage to do things I have never done before.

Somehow, after taking off that mask, I am never the same simple girl anymore.

How strange it is to be mature and how wonderful it is to experience new

things.

But sometimes, late at night,

There are still moments that I long for the sunny, breezy days in Malacca.

But it seems so far away now.

And about my true love, dear Maria, I'm so happy to tell you that he remains

unchanged, enchanted, infatuated.

My true love is a hope for me to lean on, my guiding light, a way to survive.

Mama. What happened to you? You dress like a man.

But I am a man.

Or I was a man.

Meet my fiancée, Lien. This time, it's a real girl.

How many fiancées have you had?

The kind of fiancée you want to get married to and have children.

Don't tease me.

After so many years, I got used to having a daughter.

And now I have you back as a son.

I'm confused. Don't be.

Sit down.

Where are you from?

Malacca. Isn't she a doll, Mummy?

Yes.

I

really

like your mother.

I think she likes you too.

If it's not because of her, I do not know where I'll be.

I travel so widely, done so many things, but somehow I still feel very lost.

I spend all my money on expensive clothing and fake jewellery.

Not even heavy enough to stay in a decent hotel.

Not as insane as bed.

After all, I'm just a travelling salesman.

Salesman?

It's small like a silly woman.

Have a look.

Are you a lesbian, Drago?

I visited Drago's mother many times afterwards.

Sometimes with Drago, sometimes by myself.

Her inner strength amazes me. To bring up a child born as a daughter but

embodied as a son.

What courage it takes to break all the traditional values.

It takes her a lifetime to fight.

And now she's tired.

How are we gonna do it tonight? I really want it rough and I want it bad.

Maria, dear, I don't know how to tell you this.

I'm so curious about life, but I'm so ignorant.

I want to learn.

I want to see things clearly, but I feel a hopeless destruction within me.

I want to be good.

I want to be free.

Free from all the lies I told you.

Maria, forgive me.

The black magic has no effect on Ming, so Lola turns to Buddha instead.

The morning before she goes to Penang.

She prayed so beautifully.

I'm praying for true love.

You want true love?

One day you'll find it too.

True love.

What is true love?

She doesn't want it and I don't have it.

Are you leaving?

Come sit down.

My mother wants you to have this.

She likes you a lot.

How is he?

She's gone.

Her business here is over.

I'm going back to Paris.

No.

Oh, how I miss her.

I'll be all right.

I will survive.

We will survive.

Life goes on, you know.

Can I send you off?

I think it's better to stay at a hotel.

What a surprise.

I bought something for you. Thank you.

This is Troy Nguyen.

Hello. This is Ah Nguyen.

Here comes the bus.

I have to go now.

I'll write to you. Let me write back.

That was the last time I saw Draco.

She's truly remarkable.

She can go anywhere with her Louis Vuitton and find a helping hand.

I don't mean bad.

I think she has love within her.

What is your name?

My name is Lee Bang Lee.

Lee Bang Lee. You must be very rich. You're so expensive.

You've got a lot of money. You're cute. I like the hairstyle.

It's so fashionable.

You see this boy? He's very sexy.

Yeah, look.

Very sexy.

Very, very sexy. Very, very sexy. Very, very sexy. Very, very sexy. Very, very

sexy.

Very, very sexy.

What are you doing here? I came here to see you.

You go back tomorrow.

No, I miss you.

I just want to see you.

I'm okay here.

Master will worry for you.

For you. I made it myself.

Thank you.

Do you like it?

I got Chinese tea leaves for your father. Give it to him. Oh, thanks.

These are very expensive Chinese tea leaves, especially for your father.

Thank you.

Okay,

okay, okay. By the way, there's a beauty contest tonight in Boogie Street. Make

sure you come, okay? Support me. Bye.

I'll bring you there tonight.

Don't worry, I'll take care of you, okay?

Where's Boogie Street?

Obviously, it's a marathon.

All right,

come on, go.

I mean, don't forget to prepare some hot water for tomorrow.

She's coming to town, huh?

Don't forget, huh?

Are you okay, Liam?

This is my boyfriend saying.

Sure you're okay?

More sesame oil.

Dear Maria, this is my last letter to you.

Because I am so sad that writing letters no longer has meaning.

I must admit throughout our pen-pal-ship, I created a fantasy world

of my own.

But now I realize the only real thing that exists for me is the one person I

detest.

And even he is gone.

Please forgive me again.

I'm going to do something.

By the way, we see you when we come to you.

You miss me very much.

Okay, bye-bye.

Come in.

You want a basin and a towel?

Thank you.

Dan, what's wrong?

Are you out of love?

Are you okay?

It's love, yes?

Let me tell you about love.

Love is like this hotel.

People come in and out all the time.

Sometimes there's long-term guests like me.

But nothing stays forever.

If you're good, they'll come back.

If they don't come back, don't worry. It's not because you're bad.

Sometimes they just want to try something different.

Hey, baby.

I bought you some durian.

Darling, you're back. I miss you.

Hey, Lian.

Come here.

I want you to meet Wazai.

He's got such a nice body, yes?

Could you please bring the durians to the kitchen?

Thank you.

All right, don't be late, huh?

Can I have room for three days, please?

Of course you may.

I'll give you one room, okay? This is our last guest room.

Oh, thank you.

By the way, where are you from?

I'm from Bangkok.

Oh, welcome to Sinti Hotel.

Hope you have a good time.

I will.

See you later. Bye.

Dear Maria, forget about my last letter.

I have to tell you, finally I discovered that life is just like our hotel.

People come in and out all the time.

Sometimes you come across nice clients who treat you really well, and sometimes

you have nasty ones who mess up the room and take you hours to clean up.

But ups and downs, that is what life is promising you.