Day 24 – A letter to your pet

Our dog died last month due to severe kutu infection. Since we don’t have any pet right now, I guess it’s ok to write a letter to the dead dog.

So, here goes..

Dear Spotty,

I’m really sorry that finally, you succumb to your severe kutu infection. We have done everything we could to save you, but in the end, you lost the battle. I couldn’t feel sad for you, in fact, I’m glad you’re free at last from all the kutu and we are free from your smelly kudis.

I hope you’re happy up there together with all your ancestors.

You will always be remembered.

Sincerely,
Your Owner.

Day 24 – Mission Accomplished!

Day 20 – Someone you see yourself marrying/being with in the future

I’m crossing the “marrying” word coz I’m already happily married.

Since I’m a psychic and a fortune-teller, I can see clearly that the person to the right of this pic will always be with me today, tomorrow and always..

Day 20 – Mission Accomplished!

Day 19 – Nicknames you have; why do you have them

I have a number of nicknames and interesting enough, each nickname can identify which group of friends a person belongs to. My fullname is Leyana Mesyel Matimbun. Most people never pronounce my name right. So here’s a little tutorial on how to correctly pronounce my name.

Leyana is pronounced as LAY (as in “lay an egg”) – YANA.

Mesyel is pronounced as MICHELLE

… and you’ll be an idiot if you don’t know how to pronounce my surname which is MATIMBUN.

You are not allowed to call me LEY or ANA because that’s the combination of my mom & dad’s nicknames. LEYANA MESYEL are both my name and NO, MESYEL is not my father’s name, ok? MATIMBUN is my surname, not my father’s name. “So? Which one is your  father’s name?”, kata seseorang itu. Sorry darling, I don’t have my father’s name in my name but if you really want to know, my father’s name is Bonaventure Juili Matimbun.

Wah.. panjang mukadimah.. Now, on to my nicknames..

1. Mimi
People who called me by this name are my close family and friends. My dad gave me this nickname right after I was born, short for MESYEL. So if you hear people calling me by this name, they are either my childhood friend, my cousins, my in-laws or my family.

2. Lelen (Lay-Lane)
This nickname was “bestowed” on me by my friends from my fully residential [high]school. If you hear someone calling me by this name, they are my ex-schoolmate from this particular highschool.

3. Leyan / Leanne / Len (Lane)
The people who call me with this name are those who went to school with me in Ranau primary & highschool.

4. Leyana
My colleagues

5. Puan Leyana
Acquaintances.

Day 19 – Mission Accomplished.

Day 18 – Plans/dreams/goals you have

I don’t have any.

Owh… don’t get all freaked out! I am familiar with the quote that says :

If you fail to plan, you plan to fail

BUT in my opinion, this saying only applies to those who “FAIL” to plan, not to those who CHOSE NOT to plan.

I stopped planning and doing new years resolution long ago. I chose not to because I wanted to live my life one day at a time. I realized that I’m happier that way… just go with the flow, following where my feet lead me instead of planning the way that I should follow.

The thing with following your pre-planned path is that you may missed the other interesting, wonderful path and scenery along the way.

When you realized that you have missed out on those beautiful path, you’ll get terribly upset and frustrated. Worst still, you may end up at the wrong place!

Although by following where your feet lead may sometimes get you lost,  you may stumble and fall, i believe you’ll always find your way back, get up on your feet stronger than before, therefore you’ll gain more interesting or maybe even life-changing  experience in your journey.

I used to plan, to dream, to have goals… but I’ll get depressed a lot when I failed to achieve them.

So, here I am, living my life one day at a time and trust me, my days bring me more joy and happiness this way.

“Do not follow where the path may lead… Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”

Day 18 – Mission Accomplished?

Day 17 – Someone you would want to switch lives with for one day and why

Oprah.

I don’t idolize her or anything, especially after I’ve read her biography done by author Kitty Kelley. Well, I can’t really say whether all the stories written in the book is true.. it seems a little biased, but maybe that’s because it was written by an outsider, unapproved by Oprah herself, not only for the book about her but also for all the other [unauthorized] biographies the author had done.

Anyway, if I could switch lives with someone even for one day – although Joey Mcintyre said : don’t you ever wish you were someone else – it would be Oprah.

Why?

Travie McCoy said : I wanna be a billionaire [millionaire is not even relevant nowadays..] so fuckin’ freakin’ bad… buy all of the things I never had – and I can truly relate to that 🙂

Also, I would like to experience the feelings, the satisfactions of giving away free stuffs to people. I always wonder what Oprah felt when she saw her audience go crazy over the stuff she gave them [of course all the stuff are sponsored by  those companies… ko pikir dia mo kluar duit sendiri mehhhh???].  Some even look like their heads are going to burst !! @_@ So yeah.. that’s the main reason why I’d like to switch life with her.

Just look at this video :

the subs are funny hehe…

Just look at the audiences’ reaction. Unbelievable!

And I’ve read that it’s true owh… those who got free cars have to pay taxes!

Day 17 – Mission Accomplished!

Day 16 – Another picture of yourself (baby pic!)

A few days ago, I rummaged through my old photo albums looking for my baby pic coz I need it for this challenge. Made a mental note to scan them real soon, but being my procrastinator self, i told me that it’s ok, I could always do it on Wednesday… Day 16 challenge will be on Thursday what…

Day 16 has finally come and guess what? I don’t have my baby picture with me! I had totally forgotten that I’m supposed to scan them last nite!

Since I’m not that keen on postponing yet another challenge, I decided that perhaps I should search for my baby pic online 🙂 How is that possible? well, long ago.. once upon a December ago… I used to have a HOMEPAGE [it wasn’t called website back then k…] 😀 ya… lame.. I know… eh, actually I have two homepages. One hosted on geocities – which has been closed a few years ago – and another one on tripod.lycos. To my surprise, my HOMEPAGE on tripod is still up and all my files and photos are still safely kept in my account! Went through my photo galleries and I have quite a number of baby pics in there! AWESOME!!

Looks like Day 16 won’t be postponed after all… so here are my baby [and some toddler] pics for you to enjoy… 🙂

Nah.. hehehe… banyak kan.. 🙂

Being the eldest child, I guess I’m very lucky coz my dad loves photography and he has a Canon SLR Camera (SLR ok.. bukan DSLR). Who’s a better model to photograph other than your own baby, right? hehe…

Day 16 – Mission Accomplished!