Bling bling.

*GENEVA - A pear-shaped pink diamond sold for 18.127 million Swiss francs (S$25.7 million) on Tuesday to an Asian collector bidding by telephone at an auction marked by "healthy prices", Christie's said. The top lot at its semi-annual Geneva sale, the stone weighs 9.14 carats and is graded fancy vivid pink, the highest possible colour grading.* With my first girlfriend, I asked her repeatedly if she was sure she wanted to get together with me. Nothing wrong at all with her family's money. Mine, on the other hand. "I am poor. I don't know if I can look after you. Look, I only have one pair of shoes." She didn't mind and it was all very romantic at the time but later on she cheated on me with her intern. Not that important. I have a few more actual pairs of shoes now, but I'm not sure I'll ever be able to shake that feeling of only having one. We probably won't starve, but the expenses just keep climbing. And then you read that some asshole has bought a rock for some $26 million. Don't those things have no resale value? Or is it like Pokemon - no one wants your used Rattata, but put a Lapras up and people fall over themselves to offer you money. Well, McJinglepants can choke on his rock. I'm ok with one pair of shoes. They're comfortable, and these days, a pair of slippers often walks beside me.