Oh Yes, I'll marry you. Wait, is that a 1.5 carat or not?

While a bunch of us were oohh-ahhh-ing over a newborn the other day, a friend brought up a topic of how weird a friend of ours was behaving.

"She's being really weird nowadays."

We deliberated on her weirdness and the conversation strayed into how she was doubting whether the guy she was currently dating was the one for her.

S, my friend said "Did you hear about what she told some of us about J(her boyfriend)?"

"She said she isn't sure if J is for her, as she heard from his friends that he has been shopping around for some rings and also asking around about rings."

So I said "but what does that have to do with whether he is the right one for her? I thought she had been dying to get married? Isn't this a good thing to know J's been shopping for rings?"

S then said "Yeah, but she heard he is only shopping for a one carat ring. She said she couldn't possibly say yes to anything less than a ONE POINT FIVE CARAT."

Apparently Ms. I-won't-say-yes-to-anything-less-than-one-point-five-carat had already shopped for her own ring. It had a price tag of RM76,000.

Whatever happened to true love? Whatever happened to it's the thought that counts?

Granted I adopt the saying that "if your father is poor, it's your fate but if your father in law is poor, then you're dumb" but to say that you think a guy is not for you because he has the audacity to buy you a ring cheaper than RM76,000? That's quite another.

I guess even true love comes with a price tag now.