Why I hate attending weddings and the equivalent of a black-tie
Mood:  don't ask

I'll be attending Kris' wedding banquet tomorrow. Like all wedding I've been invited to, I'm a wet blanket. I hate attending weddings, black-ties, D&Ds and formal events for one reason, I needed to dress up. Next to it, I hate the chats at such functions, in fact I prefer not to talk at all. My idea of a great weekend is 100% casual R&R. The past month itself, I've been hanging out with an old school chum, Rachael (she decided to rename herself). At 29, R's marriage collapsed before it can even begin, so to get her mind off the unhappiness, we've been doing girl stuff. Or catching up on what we ought to do when we were younger. We talked about a lot of things, she knows what most people / friends don't know about me. Such friends are few.  

While I deceived many people but with these few, I ran out of lies or rather it's tiring to be lying and to keep up with the lies. In truth, I'm a lousy liar. But the deception was necessary to protect myself, I don't want to have people ratting on me and even betraying me. I have been observing people and I think I know who are the reliable ones within the multitude. They may not be your best friends but they are the best. I know I can't go wrong with my selection. Friends outside this inner circle are distant (depending on the level of trust) and ordinary with certain flaws. Hey! But that's me, I cannot afford to take the risk even with friends.

I'm a perfectionist and I can't help the way I think and organize.  

Why I stopped watching "Charmed"
Mood:  irritated

I used to enjoy watching "Charmed" but after the 3rd season, I just switched off. Like my younger sister, I like the character "Prue Halliwell" best of all, unfortunately she was killed off by the script writer. She embodied the qualities of a first born. It didn't do any justice to the character considering that aside from the mention of Prue about two or three times in the last episode of Season 8. By the way, I didn't watch the subsequent seasons after Prue was killed off. I don't want to waste my time watching the new "Charmed", when reading the transcripts is less time-consuming. While Grams "Penny" and Mother "Patty" were included in the episode, there was no image of Prue, not even in family photographs. It's like she's deliberately banished from the Halliwell family. Do you deliberately axe out a deceased member of your family? Do you not think of the late loved one once in a while? When Brad Kern took over from the original scriptwriter, Constance M. Burge, he didn't do justice to the drama. Sure the language flourished, but the creativity dipped too (compare the ratings for Season 3 and before and post Season 3). By the way, Brad Kern, your idea is sucks big time. Aaron Spelling ought to have given you the sack a long time ago.

Loyal "Charmed" fans like myself, who used to look forward to that evening of each week to catch each "Charmed" episode, got disgruntled. Some people blamed Shannon Doherty (who was cast as "Prue Halliwell") for bad mouthing. Actors are human beings, they made mistakes too, but are we gonna begrudge that? 

I used to think that it was Alyssa Milano (cast as "Phoebe Halliwell") who killed the popularity. Some fans blamed it on the newcomer Rose McGowan (cast as "Paige". Sorry Paige, it ain't your fault, it's just that viewers are more sensible to realize that you can't just pop up at someone else's house and introduced yourself as a long lost sister (???), especially after an immediate loss in a family. You can't just conveniently replace the dead. Sorry too Alyssa Milano, but your boobs and sex appeal can't boost the ratings. Not all the viewers buy that crap. Maybe the whole sex appeal works on opposite genders, do you think it can last through four years or so? I don't think men are that narrow. Also, you can't just mimick the late Prue's dress sense and character, that doesn't work up the ratings.