Her name is still not coming back to me -- I kind of just want to call her Becky. XD

for some reason putting them together seems way too...easy

Mm, I completely agree. The overall storyline seemed to be trying to avoid the usual shoujo cliches, but putting Tamaki and Haruhi together ruins the whole non-shoujo shoujo thing that's going on. It would've been nice to see a non-conventional ship being the main pairing, imo.