Taipei Exchanges

The movie, 第36個故事, is a story about exchange. What is interesting about this movie is the attempt to bring in a sense of realism by making it down-to-earth. The main characters could resemble any one with aspirations in life and there were snippnets of short interviews by random people. This movie stirs up the hidden dreams in everyone's hearts by asking us 'What are we willing to give up for exchange to fulfill your dreams?'
 
Many people fail to realise that fulfilling our dreams isn't about the efforts we are putting in to achieve it, but is about the sacrifices we do and the things we give up in order to get to our dreams. 
 
I am heading to Taiwan tomorrow. It comes as a coincidence that I decide to blog on this film. But it isn't chance that makes me head to Taiwan. Sy and I have planned for it, though we are unlikely to go to '朵兒咖啡館' (台北市富錦街393號). The Taiwan trip is one of our smaller dreams; for me - I have sacrificed a sigificant portion of my leave and my year-end savings and taken out my drive at work in order to begin this new-found journey of happiness as a couple with Sy.