Alpha Blondy

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  11. Posted

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    iight.

     

    are there like ''timing restrictions'' on your ability to use the net, then? :P

     

    caadi maha. inaar, sowti la sheegayey inaay Xamar teknologiyada casriga ku takhususday. cajiib. :P

     

    don't tell me y'all use a donkey and cart to transport water. LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL. :D

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    my neighbour and occasional flirt, rang my phone. i didn't pick up, fearing it was just another ''booty-call'' in these times of piety :P........ also it was a little too late and long passed the ''appropriateness'' watershed. i then heard a loud banging on the door. it was her and another woman. SHOCK HORROR! WTF! what happened next, i don't particularly remember but it left a sour taste in my person. the woman was 10 months pregnant and apparently had the contractions, ma garateen? yet, she looked normal and stood like a normal person and NOT someone with a baby out of them, bursting to get out....:P

     

    anyway, i gave them a number for a taxi and said i couldn't help. this was not a good decision, in hindsight. it was late, these are unsocial hours and they had high expectations that i'll gladly conform to their little plan. i could have helped balse, i didn't. i made the right choice, but i feel a slight disappointment, in not being willing to assist the pregnant woman. this may have serious repercussions for our cordial neighbourly ties.

     

    LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL

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    the real problem actually is the lack of regional development. development, commerce and populations are strongly concentrated in the core. those in the periphery are also heading towards the urban centres. this is a ''ticking time bomb''.

     

    political correctness is a problem as well (promotion of Clan greed to the detriment of other clans). another problem is the lack of quality leadership (we need more of the cheetah generation sort of leaders...... see this clip

    for George Ayittey's strong argument). outsiders meddling in the internal affairs of Somalis is also a problem (UNSOM particularly). INGOs/NGOs and international monetary organisations are at least 15% of the 'Somali Problem'. that's what I think.

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    ^ a friend of mine is out there teaching English. i assume you're doing the same thing :D. $3k a month tax free with free accommodation. beats the austerity measures in West London, ma istidhi? :P

     

    as for Mr. Snowden, do you think Russia will grant him temporary political asylum?

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    Superlatives are entirely warranted for immensely assured Turkish arthouse drama Uzak, which is filled with a palpable sense of loss and yearning. Written, produced, photographed, edited, and directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan, it's the story of Yusuf (Emin Toprak), an unemployed young man from the countryside who comes to a wintry, present-day Istanbul in search of work on the ships. He stays in the apartment of his divorced cousin Mahmut (Muzaffer Özdemir), a successful yet cynical photographer, who's soon irritated at having his solitary routine disrupted by the presence of his rural relative.

     

    Uzak is richly contemplative and languid filmmaking, in which Ceylan's camera observes with calm detachment two men who are struggling to cope with the loneliness and transience of modern urban living. Disillusioned with his work — "photography is finished", he declares — Mahmut has been shocked by the news that his ex-wife Nazan (Zuhal Gencer Erkaya) is emigrating to Canada with her new husband. Yusuf meanwhile vainly tries to find a job at the docks, and is too shy to talk to the pretty women he sees on the city's snow-laden streets. (A capsized, rusting boat symbolises Yusuf's thwarted aspirations.) Both individuals are shown smoking and gazing out mournfully over Istanbul and its surrounding waters; both seek refuge in watching television. Few recent films have been so accomplished in capturing the way people drift through their lives, unable to communicate their emotions and feelings. That the actor Emin Toprak died in a car crash after filming was completed only deepens Uzak's memorably melancholic mood.

     

    10/10. Excellent.

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    Brutal but brilliant, "Peppermint Candy" follows the sinister career of a Korean cop in a suspensefully constructed, politically charged, emotionally intense story told backwards, taking the viewers back through 20 years of a doomed man's life, while chronicling the sentiments and changes of modern Korea. Masterfully written, beautifully made and powerfully acted, "Peppermint Candy" is a jewel that sparkles with intelligence and emotion but cuts like a diamond. Every scene, potent with both danger and inner emotion, subtly changes our view what we've already seen. Even the smallest details of film-making contribute to the film's power. Its harshest scenes are punctuated with a view from the back of a train — shown backwards to look like it's moving forwards through the beautiful, mountainous countryside — accompanied by soft, melancholy string quartet music that traces a line back to the guilt-free past while never letting us forget the wretched man's death on the tracks in the future. The symbolism of small everyday items like peppermint candy is profound, and the difficulty of creating a fresh, new present out of a rotten past is something we come to feel on a personal level. This is a story from Korea, but its human implications apply to humanity all over the world. There has rarely been a better film made, ever.

     

    10/10. Excellent.