Icy Flame

the memory is fading day by day. she plans to move out of this glommy city.

that afternoon was just a dream maybe. he decides to go for a long trip somewhere far from here.

if it were just a dream i would still treasure it.

it should be one of the most precious moment in my life so far.

still, he turns right

still she turns left

if they turn around, there is a circle.



that winter was extremely cold and chilly.
the whole city was hushed into the glommy rain.
all the sky was grey without sunshine.
everything is so down, so despressing...

however, if the winter comes,
is the spring still far away?:)


*********THE END*********


finished:D

i just translated it for fun and post it in my personal blog.
no copyright or anything else.

i've found many flashed about "Separate ways" (Turn left ,turn right) , they are all in chinese .

check here to watch the flash: Turn left ,turn right(in Chinese)

i will post some other pictures from Jimmy's books with my own interpretation in english. maybe not the whole story again like Separate Ways .but it is also very impressive :)

neither of them know this: they used to play with the same homeless cat.

they used to feed the same homeless dog and in the winter morning with sunshine they used to listen to the same bird singing a song.

what a cute babe:)

how old are you sweet babe?

birthday again.a lonely birthday again.someone is playing the violin, sounds so blue.

today should be her birthday. where is she now? really wish to wish her happy birthday in person.


to be continued.

however, life is full of changes always.

december 23th morning, what a chilly day with sharp and biting wind outside.

december 24th, a rainy and rainy christmas eve. dare not go to anywhere, were just afraid of missing any calls....

looking at the blurred paper, dailed the wrong numbers again and again....

december 31th, new year eve. but where is he? so down and despressed.....

where is she? people are celebrating the new year.thanks for keeping my company, loneliness my old friend.

how time skipped day after day. they never met each other again.

walking in the crowded street, really missed that sweet but short moment spending together. really feel helpless to search for that strange but familiar face.

is anything just in vain and that was just a dream? feeling so down without any reasons.

has he still stayed in this city or already gone away?
does she ever think of that moment or me? will there be a smile on her face the moment i run across her mind?

yes, just cannot help thinking of him all the rainy days.

i am still in this city but how come she just leaves me alone and gets lost like this?



to be continued.

just like most of the people in this city, they live together but never know each other for the life time.

but one day they ran into each other in front of the fountain in the park.

they just liked the lovers who lost each other for years.


what a happy and sweet afternoon!

it rained cats and dogs suddenly. they left their contact number for each other and left each other in a hurry.

still he turned right and she turned left.


they were caught in rain and wet through but their hearts were so warm.

they were both too excited to fall asleep that night. the rain lasted for the whole night.



to be continued.

his life is just so-so recently. sometimes he may take a part time palying the violin in some upper class restaurants in this city.

it is november now. still glommy weather here. winter is coming anyways. and there is kind of sorrow hused into the air.he enjoys hanging around outside in his leisure time when he doesn't practise the violin, going to the park to feed the pigeons, sitting alone there for the whole afternoon.

the wind is so chilly in a winter afternoon.sometimes he's got a feeling there is so much emptyness and weakness inside the heart.

in the winter evening the shadow becomes so long and lonely. still she turns left.he turns right. they never meet each other.

it gets dark so quickly nowadays even not five o'clock,yet. she is translating a tragical novel which makes her feel all the world is so grey.

after work she enjoys go to the cafe for a cup of coffee, going for a walk in the street watching all the passerbys, talking to the homeless cats.

there is sunshine outside. why it is still so damp and grey inside?sometimes she's even got a feeling the life is boring.



to be continued

Who's Jimmy? He is a famous animator in taiwan. i love almost all his books and have a collection of all of them. strange that i cannot find anything about him in english website on internet. anyways for more information about him check this Jimmy offical website out. i cannot find any english version of jimmy's books in internet here also though there are a lot in both traditional and simplified chinese...

just try to translate some of them here to share these beautiful and shining pictures, sentences, stories here.
Separate Ways is also known as Left and Right.

They're both convinced
that a sudden passion joined them.
Such certainty is beautiful,
but uncertainty is more beautiful still.

that winter was dreadfully cold.
the whole city was covered with the dank and chilly rain...
the sky is grey, without even a beam of the sunlight
so depressing, so gloomy,
the streets are weeping.

In the same apartment:

she lives alone in one apartment. this is an old apartment building located in the outskirts. she always gets used to turning left first whenever she goes out and wherever she goes.

he lives alone in one apartment. this is an old apartment building located in the outskirts. he always gets used to turning right first whenever he goes out and wherever he goes.

everyone in this city--the forest of concrete building never bothers knowing about their neighbors.

he never meets her; she never knows him.



to be continued

(1) What each of us expects from the other is fair and realistic. (2) We are happy with one another, as we are. (3) Each of us listens to the other, and cares. (4) There is ample room for each of us to have a separate life/self. We know we are two separate people who choose to be together and grow/nurture a wonderful, loving relationship. (5) We can argue or disagree, and remain friends. (6) Each of us has come to rely on the other, because we value our relationship as a top priority. (7) Mutual communication and sharing is valued by each of us. (8) Neither of us must be something or someone other than what we are, to please the other. (9) Total honesty is a shared value, as well as kindness and sensitivity toward one another's feelings. (10) Our relationship works well now, not as an unfulfilled goal to be hoped for in the future. (11) We are both committed to the relationship, and to one another. Neither of us threatens to leave. (12) We love and care for one another, unconditionally

I just saw this article in a Chinese blog when I am surfing. It is in Chinese. I don't know whether others can find it in other languages in internet so far. But anyways I really impressed by this article.
If I am in love now I think it will be quite romantic to experience all of these.:) I just translates it into English as follows:

To all the girls in love:20 things you have to do when you are with him:
1.dare to give him a hug or a kiss in public.
2.sleep on the same bed for one night talking and holding each other in arms without doing anything else.
3.cook the dinner for each other one day and then sit down face to face watching the other finish the food.
4.write diaries for him. no matter you are good at writing or not. even several words will be nice.
5.cry out like a child in his arms once no matter you are sad or happy, but make sure he is the only one to see your tears.
6. stay far away from him for some time--maybe several days--and then get a chance to taste the feeling of missing.
7.watch a moive which bores both of us, and then become absent-minded both. see each other in your eyes instead of anything else.
8.say "I love you" to him once and held his hand face to face.
9.if possible embrace each other on the top of the mountain, sit down side by side looking up at the sky full of stars.
10.make his voice to the ring of your cell phone.
11.don't forget to "show off"--be a couple of happy lovers any time and let others envy you both. remember you deserve all the happiness.
12.go for a trip with him when you have enough time and money, create some beautiful precious memory with him in some beautiful places.
13.call him a silly guy sometimes when you are alone with him; let him call you silly girl sometimes also.
14. both of us should not mind the past but should think of the future.
15. believe in this: you are my only one; i am your only one. we are exclusive.
16.try to get a bit naughty and close your eyes while walking in the street and let him lead you carefully and safely cross the road(never disobey the traffic rules).
17.go to the beach enjoying the sunrise and sunset with him for at least once in your life time.
18.tickle him and make him laugh out loud if he is ticklish.
19.go to all the bbs or forums on net and tell others you have a wonderful man like him.
20.wake him up by kissing.


okay, finished.lol

i change two or three of the 20 lists by the way i like.

what do you think of these lists? maybe you smile when you read it; maybe you just feel it boring. however, what you cannot deny is that there is love. it can grow silently from the bottom of your heart any time in any forms.

love is the air, warm and beautiful.

Tonight zhang, a boy who in the same campus as me, wanted to invite me out for dinner. Since i didn't have dinner yet and felt kinda hungry so i decided to go with him. However i told him "let's go dutch." he insisted it be his treat. i told him it wasn't so necessary since it wasn't a date. he was sort of unhappy but didn't say anything.
We ran into another friend on our way to one sichuan resturant nearby our campus. I smiled at her and asked whether she had dinner or not and liked to join us. she made a face at us and said that:" well enjoy your dinner. I don't want to be the third wheel." i made a face back and told her we were just buddy friends and not on a date now. the girl laughed and said:" okay, okay. i know."
Sigh. I really hope she did know but anyone here knows she is really an information bureau....
I just concentrated on my food during the dinner because i really didn't know what he wanted to say to me. i remember of my roomate told me zhang had a crush on me before and asked me just to wait and see if i didn't believe her. I am not a very sensitive person and i less care about others' feelings towards me if i consider them to be indifferent to me. zhang is a nice guy and not badlooking. we studied in the same college also and worked as dj in the student union radio station. some girls say he is a very romantic boy.
whatever, does it have anything to do with me? we are just friends and nothing more.

very few friends know about Mark so far. everyone knows i am single and free.

....
zhang asked me about my midsemester exams. i smiled and told him I got eighty somethings and the cut-off points for A is 80 so it meant i'd got a's this time. "wowo, well done! " he cried out. I blinked at him and said it was because i was a bookworm and smart enough not to be involved in any relationship. in another word i was not interested in finding a b/f now at all.
he replied me half jokingly also:"so does it mean i don't have a chance to date you at all?" i realized what he was trying to tell me something.
"nope." i said.
he didn't say anything for a while and just drank his coke.
i tried ot be patient and didn't start saying anything,either.
several minutes later. he broke the ice:" well i was just kidding. you know i am also not interested in you at all. But certainly i like you as nice friend."
"haha." i laughed out loud and felt totally relaxed,"yes, i do know. zhang. actually you are too dear for my possession."
....

i didn't quite enjoy the dinner tonight. to be frank i was kinda nervous at first. i am not really sure whether he was interested in me or not. But i remember well one of my friends used to tell me he made her feel so special... hmm.. maybe i can think of fix them up...:D

How can I be so absent-minded today! I was running the the bath water and the telephone was ringing so I went to answer the call. It was from my mom. She complained a lot that I didn't go back to my hometown for a long time--maybe more than one month--obvously she was not good at maths. I just went back and spent my 22 bithday party with them on November 27th! Anyways I did know she missed me a lot:)We kept on talking for half an hour. Suddenly I saw the water flowed out of the bathroom and screamed, My mom totally got scared. So I cut off the call and ran into the bathroom. anyways it took me more than half an hour to dry the floor......
After taking my shower I walked around my room with my hair wet through, thought of feed my cat some food but it was out. I was shocked when I began to dry my hair by the hair drier. I really had no idea what was wrong with it:(....Okay anyways I can just use a towel instead.
Then I sat down and swicthed on my laptop beginning reading something and blogging on net. I was waiting for a call from my professor as he told me he wanted to discuss something on my term paper with me. But the call didn't come. I waited for almost two hours and decided to give him a call instead. when I picked up the phone i almost got faint.....how stupid I was.... I thought i'd cut off the call just now but i didn't...that was very bad. but the worse was I found out my cell phone was switched off itself because it ran out of power.....
When I finally called my professor up. He asked me what was wrong with me. He called me this afternoon at about 3 pm (the time my mom called me up-_-!!!!)thinking of asking me to go to the dept office to meet him but couldn't get through. he tried several times this afternoon but the line was always busy. And my cell phone was switched off....I really got nothing to say...:(


anyways.. i am about to go for my dinner now it is almost 8:00 pm here.