New vocabulary pool (Karine's)

invigorate: if something invigorates you, it makes you feel healthier, stronger and have more energy

• Exercising is invigorating
• recharge, recoup your energies

inflation: a continuing increase in prices, or the rate at which prices increase
millennial: Generation Y, also known as the Millennial Generation.

• There are no precise dates for when Generation Y starts and ends. Commentators use beginning birth dates ranging somewhere from the later 1970s or the early 1980s to the early 2000s (decade).

(tbc)

Karine's haiku practice 6/30

Blue, sparkling ocean
Waves rise and fall, fall and rise
Like life, isn't it?

Actually, the idea of this haiku came from the following song: B'z - Ocean.
A beautiful song and it is also the theme song of a Japanese drama, U Mi Za Ru (海猿).

40 Taiwanese foods we can't live without (CNN report)

Ha ha, interesting article
http://www.cnngo.com/explorations/eat/40-taiwanese-food-296093

Braised pork rice is definitely the top 1 to me as well!! I eat braised pork rice at least 2-3 times a week~~

AND~~
Pig’s blood rice pudding (豬血糕)!

Karine's haiku practice - previous

Revised
Feel inefficient?
Priorities and timer
Two good tools for you.

Note:
1. prioritizing might be a better word, but it has too many syllables.
2. set your priorities

Revised
When I feel lazy
Watching Japanese dramas
Is the greatest thing

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If you meet someone

Try hard to make friends with them

It will be worth it

Feel inefficient? 

Priority and timer.

Two good tools for you.

When I feel lazy,

Watching Japanese dramas.  

Best way to kill time.

Karine's haiku practice 6/17

Revised
I never knew it
For me Taiwanese style food
Is fundamental

Note:
1. I never knew it...  or  I didn't know it ...
2. fundamental may reflect the sense of simply
3. need a verb at the 3rd line
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* I never knew it was so important to me until....
* I didn't realize it was so important/significant
* I never realized how much I missed it until...
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I never know it
To me Taiwanese style food
Simply important

Karine's haiku practice 6/6

Revised:
Tears, anger, and hope
A story from the South Pole
Tells us what strength is

Tears, anger, and hope
A story from Antarctica
Tell us what is strength