Hooked on Bleach

I have been following Bleach for several months now and I can't wait for the ending. Apparently, this show has been going on since August 2001 and right now, it is far from reaching its final episode, and I'm hooked.

This story is about my favorite character Kurosaki Ichigo, who gained Shinigami powers when Kuchiki Rukia was injured while fighting a hollow and lend him her power. You can read everything you want to know here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bleach_(manga)

(By the way, Wikipedia has become my favorite source of info about anything and everything. It seems they have resource on every subject I am looking for and they never failed me, hehe.)

I had fun reading forum threads by fellow fans like me at:
www.bleachforums.com

My co-worker here at PODD also gave me Bleach soundtracks and they're currently playing in my Winamp right now. My favorite is the one by D-Tecnolife performed by UVERworld, hehehe..(Oooohhhoooohhh.. hizunda kioku no you na toki no naka de itsuka wakari aeru kara... whatever that means).

If you want to download the Bleach songs, you can have it here:
http://www.bleachportal.net/bleach/multimedia/openings_closings

And the Lyrics here: (There are also English translations of the lyrics, cool..)
http://www.animelyrics.com/anime/bleach

Bleach Pics, galleries and Wallpapers here:
http://wallpapers.theotaku.com/category.php?id=187
http://www.animewallpapers.com/wallpapers/bleach/
http://www.bleachpictures.com/
http://www.bleachportal.net/gallery/

I saw Bleach action figures at Ayala and am planning to buy Orihime.. hehehe. I already gave Gigi the action figure of Renji, his favorite character.

Cheers..

Bee Scandal, Literally!

Gigi saw this shameless insects mating on a banana leaf. And we shameless humans took photos of their "deed" (for educational purposes, hehehe)..


I noticed that the female bee is bigger. Weng asked how I knew which is the female bee. The one whose being ridden of course, haha. No brainer.

These pics are really educational; I read about queen bees today.

I learned that a queen bee's function is just to lay eggs, in other words, her vagina is an "egg factory", hehehe. During reproduction season, she will go out from the colony on a warm, sunny day to mate with 12 - 15 drones (the bitch!). She will only have a limited time to mate, and if she is unable to fly because of bad weather and remains unmated, she will become a "drone layer", meaning she will only produce male bees for life, thus, death for the colony. (Yup, they can't live without us women). A healthy queen bee can lay about 2,000 eggs per day and all her needs will be tended by her slaves, like giving her food and cleaning up her poopoos and weewees. And the young workers also lick her body "pheromones". This pheromones is eaten by the worker bees so that they can't lay eggs of their own. (Yeah, they don't a need coup d'etat or maybe the queen is just selfish. Imagine, 12 - 15 drones???...hmmm).

Cheers!