as usual each of us wanted to have a say in the naming decision. i wanted this, he wanted that, bla bla bla... but the only rule set was no naming after exes. seriously.
we came up with her name roughly less than two months before she was born. the funny part was that her name was inspired from a magazine i was reading while Significant Other was having his eyes checked. and we never revealed her name to anybody until she was literally brought into the world on August 31st last year.
the name Dayana was initially meant to be spelled as Diana (die-ya-na), pronounced English style, like Princess Diana =P but since i am living in Malaysia there will be a 100% possibility of having her name mispronounced Malay style (dee-ya-na), so we had her name literally spelled on paper, hence the spelling Da-ya-na. i used to have two friends in the office named Diana, one Chinese and the other Malay, but as usual the latter will be pronounced as dee-ya-na, and the former as die-ya-na. it's kinda like a default pronounciation thingy just because of their race.
dayana brings the meaning kegagahan.
and NO, the choice of her name does NOT and NEVER will be having to do with any living person, as some of you may like to think.
we added Nur in the middle to make her name sound more Malay-like =D
Sabrina was purely coincidental as a name both me and Significant Other agreed on. people do tend to ask me if she was named after the main character from Sabrina the Teenage Witch. i like to think that it is =P. who knows, she might create magic of her own one day =)
nur sabrina brings the meaning cahaya kesabaran.
hence,
Dayana Nur Sabrina.
lol. what a mouthful. imagine the time she's gonna take to shade in her name on the examination sheet =P
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