If you are living overseas and want to surprise your wife by getting her a video iPod case for her upcoming birthday, keep it a surprise. Don't send it to a friend to bring over without letting this friend know that it is a birthday surprise. This will ultimately result in said friend-of-wife emailing wife asking, "I got a pink video iPod cover in the mail today. I'm assuming it's yours...is it?" And thus making the so-called surprise birthday gift no longer surprising.
On a good note: Rose likes pink. :-)
