<cite> @Alpha Blondy said:</cite> good morning akhyarta sharafta leh. my 2nd day here in afrikada dheexe. today i was go sightseeing. what a day!..... caadi maha. i actually worked 9-5 for once. it's been almost 4 years since i did an honest days work lol. lots of traffic in afrikada dheexe y'all. just got back to HQ. so much to share.

<cite> @Reeyo said:</cite> What will happen to the library? lol. i don't know Reeeyo. what will happen to the library?

good morning akhyarta sharafta leh. my 2nd day here in afrikada dheexe. today i was go sightseeing.

<cite> @Khayr said:</cite> Saff, How did you get him deported from Hargeisa? Tell the story! we're not dating anymore. she's been dumped.

this is a hoax. sort of like Lost.

LIVE & EXCLUSIVE from afrikada dheexe y'all. the eagle has landed. listening to David Guetta and living life in 5th gear after years of lethargy. i've left that dump and going back to back to civilisation, ma garateen? this evening, i'll go and hit the town. might even hit the bars just like old times. earlier this evening, i got a nice shape-up. here in afrikada dheexe, women cut your hair. if you pay a little bit extra, you might get a bit more, you know. to the haters i say wax isku fala. to my comrades, your support has been noted. LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL

<cite> @Khayr said:</cite> Alpha is a drama queen. How do you end up living in Somalia for many years as a dhaqan celis and end up getting deported from Somali too? You can not be a loser in more than one country - can you? why am i not surprised to hear this.

^ u sheeg.

<cite> @Reeyo said:</cite> Clan needs to be eradicated, everything that is going wrong has one source, it brings all social ills and divides us. on the contrary clan is liberating. it's the only tangible form of identity we have. everything else is fake lakinse qabil is real, sometimes all too real. i don't understand why folks like to silence folks into political correctness. certain clan folks are disgusting. they know who they are. i won't mention their names on here balse we all know who they are.

<cite> @Reeyo said:</cite> Are you returning for good? I'm leaving, on the next plane I don't know when I'll be back again Kiss me and smile for me Tell me that you'll wait for me Hold me, like you know I'll never go Even though you know I will I'm a travelling man moving through places space and time got a lot of things I got to do but God willing I'm coming back to you my baby-boo I'm a travelling man moving through places space and time gotta lotta things i got to do but God willing I'm coming back to you my baby-boo I'm leaving

salaam sister Reeyo. ma ogsoontahay in Rwanda it’s officially illegal to use the terms ”Hutu” or ”Tutsi”. apparently these ”ethnic identifiers” have been removed from all official documentation to ensure equality among the Rwandan people. lakinse, the Hutus are Bantu and the Tutsi are Hamitic. they look strikingly different. so different in fact, it’s a little silly not to call a spade a spade. unless, of course, it’s really a shovel, in which case you ought to call it a shovel instead. how can Rwanda move past the tragedy of 1994 if you can’t even say the words “Hutu” and “Tutsi”? how can you have a meaningful dialogue without them? but if you can’t say the words, aren’t you building a fence around a central part of the discussion? the difference between north and south korea has become very stark according to this article i was reading recently. to an outsider its fairly obvious to differentiate between the the ‘peoples’ of korea. the north, according to the findings of this article still maintain a more formal korean language set. the school curriculum is based on formal korean, they’re taught korean in a regimental way including reciting traditional korean poetry by memory. of course, this is infused with the current dictatorship’s political sentiments but its also become a desired ideal particularly from older south koreans. the south due to its ‘developed’ economy speaks a more modern form of korean which the media encourages and the north claims has become diluted and can no longer be deemed ‘korean’. some south.koreas also expressed dissatisfaction with the loss of identity and loss of culture, particularly of young people. similarly, the physical shapes of the two koreas is another big change. the north is said to be gaunt (due to food shortages), fitter (conscription) and ‘agile’, where the south is developing a taller stature, changes in facial looks (more paler and the desired Caucasian look has seen the increase in plastic surgery). the proximity towards warmer climates at the lower end of the peninsula has also seen toning increase in south korea. with the change in physique and the social fabric, the two koreas have become more and more different in a few generations. the article also added the two koreas may experience a change in their ethnic compositions too and this may further lead to ‘new ethnic’ groups of koreans. change is certainly inevitable but with such major changes occurring within 100 years is largely unheard off. i feel the changes in our recent history, particularly the trouble and strife years, may have serious ramification of our own culture. maxaad u maleyn walaashay?

<cite> @Apophis said:</cite> Don't come back. ^ but my entire life is here, now. my family, my job, my future, my life. i've developed a Stockholm syndrome as though a victims of sorts.... i don't know what awaits me, you know. i've lost contact with my friends. many have been incarcerated, many are still in the same old grind. i was seen as the one who got lucky, the one who got out before it was late. now i will return a hero but i couldn't lie about my extraordinary exploits like in previous visits. my indeterminate hiatus has got me out of sync with life over there, ma garatay? i've enjoyed trolling much more than i thought while here. my musings are a whole new genre... neither travel writing nor journalistic, neither entirely public nor entirely private. it's confessional but it is also entertainment and a type of new dialogue. now as i leave nation's capital, at least for a while, what kind of focus should, or can, a man of modest means take? ... do i stick the trolling on a hiatus until my next adventure, or do I walk the tightrope of being self-indulgent while amusing and engaging with a public audience in my home town? either way, there's certain level ambivalence about going back after being here for so long.

i'm going home on friday. there's an anti-climatic feeling about the whole thing. i'll miss SL, ruunti.

<cite> @Tallaabo said:</cite> I have just realised that you had done something (something disgraceful) to upset by friend Safferz!! You awe her a grovelling apology ma garatay waaryaa. i know you two have been exchanging PMs-ka, marka there isn't much to talk about, abti.

<cite> @Safferz said:</cite> I wonder what happened to the report a comment to the mods option. Go away, this is the last time I will respond to you directly or engage with your desperate attempts to get my attention. Stay away from me.

it's difficult booking anything online these days. WTF

nice tune.

epic stuff. very inspirational. thanks for sharing Oday.

really interesting.... http://www.upworthy.com/so-just-look-up-the-place-you-were-born-on-this-little-chart-and-check-out-when-youll-probably-die?c=one1

<cite> @DoctorKenney said:</cite> Warya Alphy, if you didn't read the points I raised then what gives you the nerve to respond in a manner as if you did read the points? Every single point I made is about consolidating power in Somalia. Not any reconciliation conferences, not addressing human rights abuses, not improving education/infrastructure and not worrying about the economy. This is the very direct task of consolidating power by behaving like a Dictator. Starting a massive propaganda campaign, creating a Revolutionary Guard, and using international funds to recruit a professional Army are all things which are extremely doable and can be done in under a decade. folks like you want to institute sharia law through the backdoor. y'all gadhweyne folks can't rule. reer Somalia needs a secular system. they don't need fanatical islamism.

<cite> @Safferz said:</cite> Is feeling unsure and directionless in every area of your life unique to being in your mid-20s to early 30s? Is it normal to look at your life and wonder, is this it? I think every decade has its challenges, but is there something about making that transition into adulthood, responsibility and self-sufficiency that produces these sorts of crises during this period in particular?

Ken Loach isn't one for cinematic escapism - he wants his audiences to concentrate on the here and now. But although his films confront the key issues of the day, they're not as preachy as his detractors would have you believe. Loach's tales are, first and foremost, about people, and in Ae Fond Kiss he manages to reach beyond social debate. With a Catholic girl and Muslim boy as the star-cross'd lovers, the film's dramatic issues suggest themselves immediately. However, there's more to it than the "be true to yourself" mantra of Bend It Like Beckham or the fairy-tale "opposites attract" romance of Bollywood Queen. Ae Fond Kiss plays out not only in a post-9/11 atmosphere of heightened religious tension, but also against a Glasgow backdrop where deep-rooted racism has often been overshadowed by Celtic-versus-Rangers sectarianism. 7/10.

e.g - ina lax was = sheepshagger. as the example above illustrates, Somali nicknames and the reer galbeed nicknames are incomparable. our's is metaphorical, their's is a disease. the westerns have failed at the nicknaming culture because they emphasis the race/colour of the person. for the western folks, race/colour is the ultimate marker of difference. marka, for whites, everything is implicitly relative to/contra-distinct to the difference between them and other folks. see below for examples. e.g - Western = a white man. Somali = gaal cad oo uskaag ah Western = a chinese woman Somali = gabadh bila indho ah cala kuli xaal because they contrast the different of things, they are unable to use nicknames without being racist or xenophobic. ta kale, because many of us accept the nicknames set by whites, we're actually a cause of white bunbuunis. there are not many stereotypical nicknames for whites because whites are too busy making nicknames for everyone else. by accepting and proportioning white nicknames to each other we fight each other, abtiyaal. sida wa laga ficanyahay.

^ i didn't read the points your raised, ruunti. nor do i particularly care for the sad and pathetic state of reer Somalia. <cite> @DoctorKenney said:</cite> which is why I'm asking you "What would YOU do differently" if you were given the presidency? Remember, over 70 men ran for office, and any one of them could have won and could have done something different. this doesn't make any sense whatsoever. this is not a game of charades, abti. there are actual people involved. si kastoo oo ay ahaato reer Somalia are incapable of ''high politics'' or for that matter a '' geed hoosti ku midooba'' sort of politics. they need a strong man. a benevolent dictator. there are too many institutional qaloocs in the system to resolve. unilateral decisions are better than the consensus based politics aad sheegeyso. if you’re offended by advice you solicited, that’s a sure sign your heart wasn't right when you asked. if you’re not willing to hear it and follow it, don’t ask for it. Al.

who certified Abdi Elmi to be qualified? did he device the test himself?