How much would you spend on your buddies' birthday pressies?

Someone is buying his buddy for the longest time a netbook, and then ask me if I wan to share with him.

While I do not mind sharing or chipping in 10-20 percent, since I know his buddy too; I just wonder:

1) That person is his buddy.  I am not very close to his buddy.  So why are you asking me to share a pressie with you? 

2) If you say a netbook is really cheap, it's not.  But if you say it is really expensive, it is also not.  But a decent netbook should cost about a couple of hundreds, I guess?  Would you spend a couple of hundreds on your buddy for the longest time?

Thinking back, I think the most expensive pressies me and my buddies exchange were only about $100?

We would not twitch if you ask us to spend a couple of hundreds on our boyfriends or hubbies; but when it comes to our own jie-mei's birthdays, somehow, we will cap it at $100 the most, and then keep lamenting "very broke, very broke this month..." 

And so, when I heard about him buying his buddy a netbook, I was like - wah..  It also makes me wonder about myself and my own friends... Why huh?

Yes.. wah.. I'm jealous. 

Because to gals, we buy gifts for guys based on monetary value.  So, the more expensive a gift is, the more it goes to show you are important to her. 

But this said, this also depends on how much that girl can afford in the first place.  S$90 might mean peanuts to you, but it might mean a lot to the girl...

Then again, true friendship can't be measured in terms of monetary value - I know.  It's about being there for each other emotionally, physically, mentally, whatever -lly you have...

Actually, I also dunno what I am blabbering about.  Suddenly, I find this whole article dun make sense and the thoughts dun flow...

Think I better go zzz soon.