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

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.

Bidding the lovely scenes at distance hail!
　　向远方的美景欢呼！
　　
　　See no end to the landscape,new objects presenting themselves as we advance;so,in the commencement of life,we set no bounds to our inclinations.nor to the unrestricted opportunities of grastifying them.we have as yet found no obstacle,no disposition to flag;and it seems that we can go on so forever.We look round in a new world,full of life,and motion,and ceaseless progress;and feel in ourselves all the vigour and spirit to keep pace with it,and do not foresee from any present symptoms how we shall be left behind in the natural course of things,decline into old age,and drop into the grave.It is the simplicity,and as it were abstractedness of our feelings in youth,that(so to speak)identifies us with nature ,and(our experience being slight and our passions strong)deludes us into a belief of being immortal like it.Our short-lives connexion with existence we fondly flatter ourselves,is an indissoluble and lasting union-a honeymoon that knows neither coldness,jar,nor separation.As infants smile and sleep,we are rocked in the cradle of our wayward fancies,and lulled into security by the roar of the universe around us0we quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it,instead of which it only overflows the more-objects press around us,filling the mind with their magnitude and with the strong of desires that wait upon them,so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.
　　
　　此时，但觉好风光应接不暇，而且，前程更有美不胜收的新鲜景致。在这生活的开端，我们听任自己的志趣驰骋，放手给它们一切满足的机会。到此为止，我们还没有碰上过什么障碍，也没有感觉到什么疲惫，因此觉得还可以一直这样向前走去，直到永远。我们看到四周一派新天地——生机盎然，变动不居，日新月异；我们觉得自己活力充盈，精神饱满，可与宇宙并驾齐驱。而且，眼前也无任何迹象可以证明，在大自然的发展过程中，我们自己也会落伍，衰老，进入坟墓。由于年轻人天真单纯，可以说是茫然无知，因而将自己跟大自然划上等号；并且，由于经验少而感情盛，误以为自己也能和大自然一样永世长存。我们一厢情愿，痴心妄想，竟把自己在世上的暂时栖身，当作千古不变、万事长存的结合，好像没有冷淡、争执、离别的密月。像婴儿带着微笑入睡，我们躺在用自己编织成的摇篮里，让大千世界的万籁之声催哄我们安然入梦；我们急切切，兴冲冲地畅饮生命之杯，怎么也不会饮干，反而好像永远是满满欲溢；森罗万象纷至沓来，各种欲望随之而生，使我们腾不出工夫想死亡。

"A friend walk in when the rest of the world walks out."
Sometimes in life,
You find a special friend;
Someone who changes your life just by being part of it.
Someone who makes you laugh until you can‘t stop;
Someone who makes you believe that there really is good in the world.
Someone who convinces you that there really is an unlocked door just waiting for you to open it.
This is Forever Friendship.
when you‘re down,
and the world seems dark and empty,
Your forever friend lifts you up in spirits and makes that dark and empty world suddenly seem bright and full.
Your forever friend gets you through the hard times,the sad times,and the confused times.
If you turn and walk away,
Your forever friend follows,
If you lose you way,
Your forever friend guides you and cheers you on.
Your forever friend holds your hand and tells you that everything is going to be okay.
And if you find such a friend,
You feel happy and complete,
Because you need not worry,
Your have a forever friend for life,
And forever has no end. 　　

Please come down to me like an angel and embrace me like the breeze. I really enjoy the lyric and the rhythm of the song "love in tokyo". (this is also the first Japanese song I learnt)
Here is the lyric of this song in both Japanese and Chinese.
And i tried to translate it into English by myself:P

小田和正 - 东京爱情故事
ラブストーりーは突然に
突如其来的爱情故事
何から伝えばいいのか不知该从何说起
分からないまま时は流れて时间在悄无声息地流逝
浮かんでは消えてゆく
ありふれた言叶だけ涌上心头的满腹言语消失得无影无踪
君があんまりすてきだから你的美丽动人
ただすなおにすきと言えないで让我无法直白爱上你
多分もうすぐ雨も止んで二人たそがれ雨快止了在这个只属于我两的黄昏
あの日あの时あの场所で在那天 在那时 在那地方
君に会えなかったら如果不曾与你邂逅
仆等はいつまでも见知らぬ二人のまま我们将永远是陌生人
谁かが甘く诱う言叶に
もう心揺れたりしないで别再为他人的甜言蜜语而动心
切ないけどそんなふうに虽然会有苦闷但我还是
心は缚れない约束不了自己的心
明日になれば君をきっと一天比一天更喜欢你
今より好きになる比现在更爱你
そのすべてが仆のなかで时を
超えてゆく我所有的一切越过时空的阻隔来到你身边
君のために翼になる
君を守りつづける我要变成翅膀紧紧地守护你
やわらかく君をつつむ
あの风になる我要变成风温柔地拥抱你
あの日あの时あの场所で在那天 在那时 在那地方
君に会えなかったら如果不曾与你邂逅
仆等はいつまでも
见知らぬ二人のまま我们将永远是陌生人
今君の心が动いた
言叶止めて肩を寄せて现在你已动了心不要言语依偎着我
仆は忘れないこの日を在那难忘的日子
君を谁にも渡さない我不会把你让给任何人
君のために翼になる
君を守りつづける我要变成翅膀紧紧地守护你
やわらかく君をつつむ
あの风になる我要变成风温柔地拥抱你
あの日あの时あの场所で在那天 在那时 在那地方
君に会えなかったら如果不曾与你邂逅
仆等はいつまでも
见知らぬ二人のまま我们将永远是陌生人
谁かが甘く诱う言
叶に心揺れたりしないで别再为他人的甜言蜜语而动心
君をつつむあの风になる我要变成围绕你的风
あの日あの时あの场所で在那天 在那时 在那地方
君に会えなかったら如果不曾与你邂逅
仆等はいつまでも
见知らぬ二人のまま我们将永远是陌生人

i don't know where to start.
how time flies?
though it is an old story.
but i just don't have enough courage to speak it out.
your perfection makes me dare not love u freely.

perhaps the rain is about to stop.
you and i stand still in the sunset
just at very moment someday somewhere
if never running into u,
we would be stangers forever.

who tells u i can easily be fooled
by the sweetalks from anyone else?
even though i am now in depair and can hardly breathe.
i never want to tied your heart up like this way.

just loving u day by day
love increases every single second
with evening i will come beyond space-time
to reach out for u
come down to u like an angle
hug u gently like the breeze

if never running into u,
we would be stangers forever.

i know i've blowed your mind
but u keep your lips tight
at least let me lay closer to your shoulder
for this moment becoming everlasting
never want to let u go

come down to u like an angle
hug u gently like the breeze
if never running into u,
we would be stangers forever.

don't change your heart
just for the sweetalks from others
i will be the breeze hugging gently around u
if never running into u,
we would be stangers forever.