The great PS chase began on an unexpectedly busy Sunday afternoon. The husband and I had decided the night before to finally get the drilling done by Monday so that I can redecorate the dinky bachelor pad he once had into that suited for a man married to a HIGHLY sophisticated big city girl. So of cos the girl insists on heading to IKEA for even more shopping (did I mention that we had already gone for a shopping spree a few weeks before??) to which the husband reluctantly agrees to.

The man ALWAYS reluctantly agrees to such ideas by the wife but enthusiasm surely infuses through him by the time she is done recreating the image in her head into reality.

We had a lot of things to get done by Sunday and we had to closely watch the clock as most stores close by 5 or 6pm. Not only did we need to get the drill to get the drilling done (husband had refused regardless of countless previous requests, to simply borrow a drill from a neighbour first just so we can get the drilling done), we had to go to IKEA to get the necessary items and of cos husband wants his birthday present from me, the elusive PS.

What is the PS, you ask? Well, for his birthday this year, I decided to get him PlayStation 2. You can imagine the glint in his eyes when he found out and the glee in his voice when he spoke of finding it. But it would prove to be a much more difficult task than we had thought.

Who would have thought that PlayStation 2 would be THE Christmas present of 2007? Everywhere we went to, there was no PS2 to be found. And these were not tiny electonic stores that we are talking about. We went to 5 different major chain stores, the kind that occupy a large part of the building and yet even they had no more stock of this elusive game console. After 5 stores, I was ready to call it quits and wait another 2 weeks before we can get it for him. After all, his birthday is at the end of the month. But of cos, the boy at heart refuses to give up hope and convinces his wife to visit just 1 more store before he would call the chase dead. Note; by this time, I had called the chase dead 2 stores ago cos we still hadn't gone to IKEA and I was getting MIGHTY nervous.

We didn't quite find exactly what we wanted but it was what we needed. At the very last store, we found a small pile of colourful boxes screaming 'Monster Grumble Junior PS2'. It was the PlayStation 2 console which also included a game and the attachments that come with it. It was slightly more expensive than if we had gotten just the console but we got it anyway since it did come with a game plus attachments so the worth of the bundle worked out.

So there we had it. The long awaited PlayStation 2, drill and IKEA stuff all bundled into the back of the car and 2 very excited people who are smiling for different reasons.

Ah...men and women are definitely made different.