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The Husband must be cursing me right now! Every time he plans a surprise for me, I ruin it.. Sometimes with “Thanksgiving sales,” sometimes with my oversmart brains, sometimes by scaring him, and sometimes by eating his brains off totally!

Lets Rewind a few weeks back to Nov-Dec 2009.
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The Husband was planning the perfect Anniversary presents for me. A MacBook Pro (been wanting it since forever), DVDs of ALL the Seasons of FRIENDS(had been asking him forever and he kept telling me we dint need it), and a trip to Hawaii. Enter Thanksgiving and Black Friday sales, MacBook Pro comes on a $100 discount and I drive The Husband crazy that I want one! FRIENDS comes for $8 each as against the regular $15 and so again, I run to Target and pick up all the seasons. And I jokingly ask The Husband in some random conversations about “How it would be if both of us book tickets for Hawaii separately wanting to surprise each other” coz he kept telling me that he won’t be able to make it to a vacation! And so out of worry that I might do as I am saying, he decided to bring out the cat from the hiding and tell me to start planning for Hawaii! :P Bottom line, all his gift ideas were out couple of weeks before the anniversary.

Back to the Present.. >>>>>>>>>

Come Jan 2010, my Birthday’s arriving and The Husband gets down to planning the present. He asks me a zillion times what I want and I tell him I don’t want anything etc etc. So the poor thing(though he hates to buy presents) starts thinking and keeps his eyes and ears open to my looks and words. Keeps noticing everything that I say is good which is usually 60% of the things in a store and when it comes to Apple stores, something happens to me! Its way too difficult to bring me out of the store coz I love absolutely everything there.. The whole white look of the place gives me goosebumps.. So he has a tough time listening to me and following my gaze there coz I practically check everything in the store, even the MacBook Pro, even though I already have one! So anyway, he decides to get me this girly PINK colored hardcase for my MacBook which I said I really liked, and a magic mouse (which looks way too cute).. and promptly gets them for me hides them from me etc etc. I kept driving him crazy asking him what he’s got me etc etc. For the last 3-4 days he has been going through hell coz I’ve probably asked him at least a dozen times each day to gimme hints.. even through cold cough and fever! And so he decided to start giving me one of my presents 2 days before the day. He brings out this hard case and the next question I ask him is if the other present is “the mouse!?” He very promptly says no and tells me to worry about my cases which are to be read before Monday. During some more discussion, he says lets give the notebook a complete makeover and get everything needed for it as my present (Right now, out of all my possessions nothing is more valuable to me than my MacBook! ofcourse The Husband stands way ahead of it but he is not a materialistic possession, is he?) So, we’re like OK and while using the trackpad of this thing, I suddenly tell him that we should buy a mouse first even if its a wired one coz I really need one.. Poor thing finally decides to bring my second present out too! All 2 DAYS before the Birthday! Total bummer for him.. He is way too cute to hide things from me ain’t he? Or am I way too Chalu that I get things out just like that!?

Now I actually feel sorry for him. I know he would have loved to see my expression on that day when he brings out the stuff. I am too impatient! Bad me.. But anyway, he says there’s 2 more surprises in the list and that they will come out only after 2 days! And hence, I promise I am gonna be a good girl and keep my mouth shut and read the 2 cases I am supposed to read for my class on Monday. Coz we have loads to do tomoro – places to go to, friends to meet and sooo many more things.

As for other news, we are still in this hotel room and the light’s so low here, I can’t even click pics of my presents. And we were a cm close to having a look at our new apartment, but they were the wrong keys. We hope to be able to see them tomoro! Until then, I get back to my reading and you’ll have a great weekend! :)

I realized I haven’t posted a song for a long time now! And there’s some problem with the code with which I used to put all the songs on a different page. I tried a different approach which I don’t really like a lot, but decided to go with it until something else comes up. Right now.. I have no idea whether this one will go on that page or remain here on the home page… All you computer and programming wizards, if you can find me the perfect code for this one, I will dedicate a full whole post to you and maybe even a song too!!! :P

Well anyway coz of all the atyachar with the code, and coz The Husband is all about this song lately, I decided to post it here…

I love this movie! It changed the whole perspective of Devdas and Paro and Chandramukhi..din’t it?

Now, how about shakin’ a leg or two!?

I am watching The State of The Union on CNN right now. President Obama is making the historic speech, and I decided I never want to be The President of the USA even if given an opportunity, even in my dreams. Apparently, I’ve been having weird dreams recently, to quote one, that I’m MY cell phone! Huh!? Yep, I had this dream and it was a horrible life with all the tapping on my face.. :P

Anyway, now back to topic, I don’t wanna be The President. Whenever I watch any of these speeches and addresses made by The Presidents, my decision feels right! Let’s think of my life if ever I am The President.

I am always on the edge of everyone’s spectacles, people are just finding a reason to pull me down! And frankly, I hate to be judged, well who doesn’t? Then, I have to wait for the whole world to enter a room and wait for some people to announce me come in! Duh! I am a ritual and tradition breaker.. So, why not just enter the room? And then I am back on being judged if I do so..

I have to greet and Thank people a zillion times just for being in the room(when more than half of them are waiting to pull me down and wait for me to make a mistake!) and I wouldn’t even have spoken by then! Then, when I start speaking, some person decides to stand up and clap and steal the show! They break my flow people, what if I forgot my speech, coz come-on everyone’s entitled to mistakes? We were created that way!

Well anyway, I am way too egoistic to let people judge me. :) With all due respect to all The Presidents so far and those to come, I am better off sitting at home and watching you make your speeches on TV!

Before signing off, found this hilarious video…

After a pretty long travel of like 3 days, we finally reached this place and GOSH was I shocked to see the place!? Its nothing of what I’d thought or imagined.. Its not even remotely close to all the other places I’ve been to in this country. Its a totally different experience. Perhaps thats whats the NYC effect! Its exactly like Mumbai! It costs an arm and a leg for a matchbox of an apartment and more often you end up in something you don’t really like, and as if that was not enough, you don’t even get the place immediately. They take nothing less than 3 weeks to get the place ready for you… To add to it, you’re in this hotel room which is next door to the mechanical room which literally shakes at around 11 every night and then again at some time during the night when you are too deep in sleep to even see the time. We finally changed the room and my-my, did we get a room with the view of the NYC skyline!? So, finally we’re in this hotel room for the next few weeks until we get our new apartment.. The best news of all is I am getting a brand new kitchen there! I like it when things go from bad to OK to good to better!

School is cool.. met some great people, attended my first class and before I knew I was neck deep in to Organizational Behavior, Legal issues, info systems, marketing, management and what not! I haven’t even attended the first class in all my courses and I already have assignments and deadlines to take care of! So busy that I only get time to read all my favorite blogs on Reader while on way to school, or while cooking and that too on my phone! I don’t get time to get to the commenting part of it.. Well, no point cribbing right, I asked for a busy life didn’t I?

Coming back to good things, the weather is like wow! I couldn’t dream of going out without a heavy bulky jacket on me in Minneapolis, but here, a sweatshirt is enough to keep me warm! Temperatures have been ranging between 0 and -7 instead of the horrid and dreadful -25 to -30 in Minneapolis! Not to brag, but for someone who’s survived -30, what’s -7 huh?

So, here I am finally.. in the busiest place on the planet… trying to fit in… and wondering if I ever will have the NYC effect in me…

Is it? Is it 2010 already!? Well it was only few days ago it was still 2009 and there was loads of time for New Year’s! Well anyway, the last one month was like a roller coaster ride… first with our friends coming back here, loads and loads of shopping with them, the trip to Hawaii, the Anniversary, the Xmas parties, the gifts, the movies, the shopping again, the start of packing (yes we’re movin’ to a new state and so we’re absolutely busy packing), loads and loads of fun, heaps and heaps of snow, temperatures at -29 deg celsius, all the dancing, the blackjack, dinner parties, lunch parties, tea parties, bowling alleys, birthday parties, and OMG! so many parties!

and before we knew, it was 2010! In less than 3 weeks I am gonna be a student again(!!!!), I have no idea if I am excited, scared or what! we’re gonna go to a new place and this place which we called home for a year is now a cardboard box jungle… piles and piles of stuff everywhere and friends all over the place helping us pack… life is cool! :P Just a little problem, we dont have a place to call home in the new city yet! :D We’re looking, and looking… lets hope we find something good real soon… In the meantime, I  can’t wait to start school and bore ya’ll with the details of it! :D

So, how was your Christmas and New Year’s? Did you watch 3 Idiots yet!? Did you not love it!? :)

And oh ofcourse! Here’s wishing everyone a fabulous 2010!

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