Thanksgiving, Black Friday, Bigg Boss, & Abhishek
So for starters, the long weekend was enjoyed wonderfully. 
Neeraj and I went back to Morton on Tuesday night. We had our favorite Taco Bell that night for dinner. We got home after 9 pm that night. Then the next day we had planned to go “car shopping” with my brother Suraj, as he wants to trade in his current car with a new one. Unfortunately we didn’t get a good deal from the dealer on the car that he wanted (Ford Fusion), so we scrapped the idea. 
By the end of the long weekend, we had finally convinced him to look at foreign made cars, so we are going to take a look @ the Hyundai Santa Fe SUV next time. 
Wednesday night we had family come from Minnesota. It was Vinay Bhaiya, Kalpa Bhabhi, and their two kids, Neha & Soumya. We had a great time with them on Thanksgiving as we took them around Peoria, and then St. Louis on Friday. Their kids are so well behaved, and the time passed so smoothly. We really missed them when they left Saturday early afternoon. Soumya is only two, and she says the cutest things - but more than that she is one smiley child. 
Neha is also great - very smart.
Black Friday
Yes we checked out the ads on Thanksgiving, and then I woke up the clan (Neeraj, Suraj, and Vinay Bhaiya) at 2 am, and we headed out to Circuit City with a bang:!: I wanted to get the I/O Magic External Hard Drive for 40 bucks. Neeraj wanted to get the portable DVD player for his family in India, Suraj was going to get Neeraj and my Christmas gift (GPS system for our car :grin:), and Vinay Bhaiya wanted to get the 1 GB memory card for his digital camera for 3 bucks. 
But once we had reached at 2.45 am, we began to rethink on whether we would be able to get anything because the line was soooo long. 
Really, the line had more than 60 people standing in line, and we headed towards the back of the line. The store would open at 5 am, so we still had ample amount of time to stand out in the cold (thank goodness it wasn’t freezing 
).
But finally the news is positive - we got everything we wanted and more:!:
Serial News
Of course we all were stuck on Bigg Boss to find out not only who will be out (which was Kashmera), but also to find out what the hungama was with Rakhi Sawant:!: She caused this huge fight with Amit, and it was necessary to see if they would duke it out, but unfortunately nothing like that happened. We did, however, find out that Rakhi’s bf is none other than Abhishek Awasthi, the guy who was also in Zee CineStars. Rakhi did end up apologizing to Amit. So we will see what happens this week as FOUR people have been nominated to be ousted from the house of Bigg Boss, one being Rakhi herself.
Sunday I watched on Aaj Tak the news of Abhishek, Amitabh, and family with Aishwarya being in Banaras for some pooja. 
Yes, it is going to be true that Aish and Abhishek are marrying next year, and they are doing special manglik pooja currently to ensure that everything works out properly.
Also the first day on the job today, and everything went well:!:
Some videos are going to be up in the next post:!: Enjoy!
Alvida. Jai Mata Di.
November 28th, 2006 at 12:44 am
Hum aa gaye hai jee
November 28th, 2006 at 12:52 am
Ohh nice time with the family !!!
Ford Fusion is my hubby’s fav car as of now…he wants to have one….
Man 1GB card for 3$..thats dirt cheap…grt…All my cousins in the US went mad shopping…they picked up stuff which they might never ever use…
Poonam, I am glued to Bigg Boss like anything…Thank God Kash is out…now, who is it going to be next…very difficult to guess..with 4 options…kya pata junta kisko out karte hai…
Yaha par toh news channels have gone mad covering the Aish-AB Jr thingie..will they marry…??? or not….their pooja’s in Madurai, Varanasi…
November 28th, 2006 at 1:00 am
Great deals!
About Abh-Ash… one news channel took interview of a priest who said he got them married last week… rumors all around. And news channel are wasting too much time on this topic
November 28th, 2006 at 1:07 am
Why is AB-Ash affair getting so much footage on news channels? Kisko farak padta hai whether they get married or not.. or if they do.. when is the d-day.. who cares!! not me atleast…
BTW, you guys got awesome deals on black friday… my cousin too got a sony handycam for me for just $9.5 :)…
phew… why don’t this kind of sale happen in India… !! 
November 28th, 2006 at 3:22 am
oh my gosh, are you serious that Aish will get married with Abhishek next year? ohh nooo …. when I heard about the engangement rumour, I was shocked, now I am … speechless. Anyway, hopefully Abhishek will be happy
Don’t really like Aish though … And glad that your new place is great 
November 28th, 2006 at 10:59 pm
Congratulations for the new job Poonam. Glad to know that you made the best of the long weekend. It is -40 C with the windchill outside… its been freezing cold for the past few days here in Edmonton. And regarding Ash - Abhi saga, would someone please give Abhi a shaving kit… he is turning into a Majnu with his beard. :-)
December 1st, 2006 at 6:45 am
Good to see some blogs are updated regularly. Though some readers are very irregular in reading ;) That last line was for me. Back here after ages. Hope all is well.
Yeah, me too has seen a lot of Big Boss, and drama queen Rakhi Sawant is quite entertaining, though irritating at times, and her ‘cup’ of woes are perennial and the fight with Amit was hilarious. Kash was the other drama queen, though she is out now.
December 1st, 2006 at 6:46 am
About Aish-Abhi, sick of reading about them! It is news overkill!
December 3rd, 2006 at 1:51 pm
I could watch that topic all day Ankur and not get bored.
Yup they are definitely going to get married Mona.
Abhishek’s grandmother is not in good health, and she wants to see her grandson’s marriage before anything happens to her, so I think it will be sooner than later that he will get married. 
Thanks Joy, and wow on the weather in Edmonton:!: Canada is known to be cold, but wow:!:
How’s it going now? Still that cold???
So both drama queens are out now DJ, so not sure what will happen.
Assumedly they will do something to make sure that the drama is not dead in the “reality show”. 
I could watch anything and everything about Abhishek all day long.