Lex Limbu is a 24 year-old Nepali blogger and a youtuber based in London. He started blogging in 2007. Lex is also the founder of Tracing Nepal 2016 that aims to bring Nepali youths living outside to experience Nepal like never before. He has over one hundred thousand followers on Facebook and Twitter and lexlimbu.com is one of the most popular Nepali blogs at present.
He shares with Prasuma Rawal of Republica five things about him that many may not know.
Suffers from slight sleeping problem
He tends to fall asleep everywhere. He has had unforgettable moments of sleeping in an exam during his university years and he has also slept during a jungle safari at Chitwan. He tries pinching and slapping himself but that doesn’t help. He has also suffered in his various part-time student jobs due to this habit. This happens to him even when he has got complete rest and wants to find the solution to this problem very soon.
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Lex is not his real name
Not surprising but a shocker for many that Lex is not his real name. He always views ‘Lex Limbu’ as a different person and a creation of his own. He feels that being Lex is easier online than offline but it’s something that he’s learning to master every day. In the other mode, he’s more of a reserved character that often blends in the background. His official name is different and he also does not use Limbu as a surname as his family uses the family surname (a group within the Limbus). However, he did not want to disclose his real name.
Is a hard worker
He is certainly not an overnight success. Since the age of 12, he has been struggling and working for himself from being a paper-boy in the North of England to working in McDonalds. He worked as a marshal in a quad-bike racing track just before the age of 16 and in cinemas and a security steward at events like Wimbledon Tennis Championship to Formula 1 Grand Prix and a check-out boy. He loves travelling and writing blogs. His father always encouraged him to work. Lex believes that working in different areas and being exposed to people makes one confident and helps build character.
Thinks about future family goals
Even though he’s only 24, he really looks forward to having a family one day. He says that
people are busy nowadays and don’t make time for their better half and don’t think about how or where a family would fit in as we are wrapped up with our career, life goals or life travels.
He further adds that having children when you’re slightly young gives you so much time later on and you could have a good bond between your families as his parents also had him at a young age. He wants to be a cool dad one day and is also aware that it is probably something difficult for him to achieve.
He’s a follower
Lex has been religiously following and checking out updates of some people on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter and he loves it. He takes it as a boon of social media that you can meet people or follow people who are doing different things. He had always wanted to be a pilot when he was little and when he checks updates of the pilots that he follows on social media, he feels like he’s getting a glimpse of their world. If he stumbles across a cool profile or thinks that the person is living in an interesting part of the world, he just goes ahead and gives them a follow even if they’re not following him.
