^Hope he goes far in the sport.

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Reeyo;910790 wrote: Ok I am going to ask a question I've always wanted to ask.-- I was at this wedding recently and the Somali bride looked like any other Somali bride that I've seen. She was tall beautiful, had long extensions and wore a form fitting White wedding dress. She looked stunning but at the same time foreign looking and uncomfortable. I love how Somalis describe brides as 'caroosad' because she looked plastic and barbie looking. All you married girls- You wore a white dress (don't lie!) Why? Why one dress?Just go with several. This one is beautiful, especially in the form of a ivory long sleeve lace. May the day never end!

Safferz;932217 wrote: Reminds me of this article a few years back: Somalia Gets a Tourist, Mogadishu Officials Are Baffled Read more: http://newsfeed.time.com/2010/12/13/somalia-gets-a-tourist-mogadishu-officials-are-baffled/#ixzz2P3fiknX5 It’s no wonder Somali immigration officials in Mogadishu thought a 41-year-old man who described himself as a tourist was insane; they hadn’t seen a tourist in the Somali capital since, well, ever. Canadian citizen Mike Spencer Bown is a seasoned traveler having visited more than 150 countries. But when he arrived in Mogadishu as a tourist, he was met with disbelief. “We have never seen people like this man,” Omar Mohamed, one of the officials, told the AFP. “He said he was a tourist, we couldn’t believe him. But later on we found he was serious. That makes him the first person to come to Mogadishu only for tourism.” Somalia has been one of the world’s most dangerous regions since 1991 when political strife erupted and the country has been plagued by civil conflict since. Many government tourism departments, including those of the U.S. and Canada, heavily discourage travel to Somalia. According to the U.S. Bureau of Consular Affairs, “kidnapping, murder, illegal roadblocks, banditry, and other violent incidents and threats to U.S. citizens and other foreigners can occur in many regions.” All of that may seem pretty daunting to any traveler but Bown was intent on visiting Somalia’s beaches. “I knew that Somalia plunged into civil strife nearly the day I started travelling but it was still on my list of places on the globe I should tour,” he said. Bown managed to spend time in the dangerous capital (only within the gates of his heavily guarded hotel), though he said that it took a bit of finagling to actually get past the dubious officials at the airport. “They tried four times to put me back on the plane to get rid of me but I shouted and played tricks until the plane left without me,” he said. And you thought TSA pat downs were an ordeal. I think that was a scout taking pictures for a feasibility-study with regards to the arrival of Erdogan a year later. He snapped all the important points in Mogadishu, and potential red-flags, basically the study was a success. As for the OP's sensationalist drivel, I want to see that Ryan dude attempt to utter the same words in less than 5 years time.

True story: 1) Somali boys dream of being economists, architects, graphic-designers, etc, they blend in with the student populace. They listen to One Direction, don't mind Rihanna and are pretty much mama's boys. 2) Somalis girls dream of similar destinations, but stick out amongst their female peers due to their unique Somali/Islamic fashion. 3) Alienation ensues, cliques form, girl vs girl fights break out, Somali girls hold their own 4) Individual Somali boys aid their blood-related sisters against the boyfriends of the other female students. 5) The boyfriends eventually one way or another beat up the individual Somali boys through weight of numbers. 6) Somali boys harden in attitude and mentality and gravitate towards one another by forming a group. 7) Somali boys exact revenge and beat up the boyfriends. 8) They either become the alpha-group or like in this video reach a stale-mate. 9) In either case everyone stays out of each-other's business from then on. 10) Somali girls continue with studying and reach their aspirations, some Somali boys however drunk on the power of brotherhood and group-thinking, take this form of comradery from the school-yard to the street by dropping out. 11) They become hardcore gangs and engage other long established hardcore gangs. 12) News headlines galore...and in the end we all blame the Somali fathers...........WTH :confused:

Alpha's rants against any successful individual performing their talents in his neck of the woods reminds me of Little Britain's "I'm the only gay in the village" syndrome.

I watched like 80 min of Django before being dragged out at the scene where they bring out the wife from the heat-pit, two other black/African couples left at that part. Damn, Tarantino is just not for everyone lol, and I was mainly enjoying the action. On another note I received Legend of Korra, and I must say that's a great story, it rivals Aang's story.

I know this is about skills networking, but these events are great for single Somali brothers, the sisters are very assertive and super-confident if they think your marriage material, you'll leave with a massive ego.

^ NGONGE;929983 wrote: Have you read the bits of it on Amazon? It is a load of nonesense, saaxib. But like I said earlier, for someonet that learnt the language in only four years, it is something to be impressed with. A 12 year old isn't going to provide you with a second Things Fall Apart or A Song of Ice and Fire, the mind at that age is still expanding at a rapid pace, learning hundreds of new things a day. I'm admiring the discipline and courage. When I was that age I was a playstation zombie, and needed to be spoonfed by my mother periodically or I would whither away.

NGONGE;919362 wrote: Rahima, I understand your position but still think it’s mistaken. There is nothing wrong with being an idealist; however, to become one (in the way you perceive the idea) you would need to distance yourself from all Somali political debate. For an idealist, the discussions of arms embargo, looted houses or clan fights are mere details that get in the way of their romanticised view of Somalia. These details don’t bother them, what they bother with instead are dreams of universal education, absolute justice and comprehensive healthcare (it’s the fantastic world of Chimera’s fluffy Somalia). NGONGE, big bro, the difference between you and me is that if we were in a room somewhere in Somalia with a single pregnant mother expecting a boy. You would keep reminding her that he is the son of the man that used to abuse her, the same man that abandoned her. You would remind the young mother that the same blood would run through that little boy's vain. You would remind her of his clan-lineage and why the little boy most likely would end up a militiaman or a pirate, and that she should accept that destiny, because to you "clan is everything". In the process you would give her examples of the civil-war and showcase pictures of degenerate warlords as role-models. I on the other would inform her of all the potential positions her son could attain in life if she were to support him. I would tell her that there is absolutely no limit to what her son could achieve if she raised him in the right environment, with proper care and attention, be it a doctor or Boeing pilot, an architect or a Karate champion. I would highlight that each man has his own soul, and that the sins of the father aren't inherited by the son. I would give her a myriad of examples showcasing successful Somalis to whom clan is unnecessary, and who have adopted more admirable/profitable and less destructive societal systems to advance their own lives and that of those around them. Your stance is a lazy one, it lacks creativity and ingenuity, for that you need dreams, some attainable others not. However, we both know which of the two positions is more destructive to the newborn boy, You would have the young mother accept the terrible future you painted for her son, which in turn becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy, because the mother after your speech lost all hope and simply did not bother to educate him, or to care for him, or to fight for his future, or to show him love because nobody wants to love a militiaman in the making, right? I give her honey sweet hope and candy rich dreams. That's what a young mother wants to hear, that her son could be the President of Somalia one day and help her countrymen rise from their current pathetic existence, that he could fly for Somali Airlines one day, that he could be the head of East Africa's biggest Children's Hospital one day, that he could be the most sought after architect/designer in the Somali peninsula for new constructions one day. My position is what will benefit the toddler, and give him a fighting chance in a world ruined by older generations. Superimpose this upon the whole of Somalia, and one can see which of the two positions is very destructive to the future generations and which of the two is more productive. Your "clan is everything" mantra should also be edited into "clan is necessary". The latter I will conceed, in a poverty stricken country like Somalia clan remains necessary, but this does not have to be the future reality. This degenerate societal system is barely 800 years old, and most clans can't abtiris back beyond the 16th century, most of it BS. I bet if I had a time-machine and inserted Big Bird in one of these genealogies the current clan-masses would eat it hook, line and sinker. We were Somalis before the clans, and we will be Somalis after the clans. Its an extremely weak system when you peel away the bravado, for it cannot withstand the pressure of a strong state, or a strong movement. The problem in the case of Somalia is that these states and movements came with degenerate view-points and individuals of their own that failed to achieve success or maintain success in clan-neutralizing societal pillars such as education, military, religion and economy. This is why clan remains necessary in Somalia, but it wasn't necessary to the thousands of Somali school children that traveled across Somalia to teach nomads, from different clans than their own, how to read and write. It wasn't necessary to the thousands of Somali soldiers that were a hair away from permanently obliterating the Ethiopian empire, it wasn't necessary to the hundreds of thousands of Somalis from across the peninsula that invested and settled in the Somali metropolis of Mogadishu. Rahima let you off easy, but we both know that the group which was the most powerful political and military force to rise from Somalia since the collapse of the central government was neither clan-based, nor dislodged by clan-based states. It took external powers to thwart their attempt at ruling Somalia. In this scenario, the group lack the visionary principles that guided Ataturk or the Ayyatollahs and the rest is history. Yet their rise also showcased the utter weakness of the Somali clan system in the face of a united transclan opposition. "Clan is necessary", but only to certain factions in Somali society is this applicable, not to the thousands of Somali doctors, nurses, teachers that care for and teach hundreds of thousands Somali patients and students on an annual basis without asking for their lineage....clan is unnecessary. To the multi-million dollar Somali companies such as Hormuud and Dahabshiil employing tens of thousands of people and with offices all across the peninsula....clan is unnecessary. Around 40-50% of the Somali population remains nomadic, and to further highlight your "clan is everything" mantra is a lazy way of stereotyping a complex problem, you would categorize these nomads as a large pool of clannists, because in your non-fluffy world, clan is everything. You would use the various skirmishes between nomads as an example that clan is everything and therefore we should accept it as is. My "clan is necessary" copy-edit is far more inclusive to the real roots of the problem of today, which in this case is watering wells and grazing areas. In a situation where these nomads are introduced to more modern technology in the form of rain-water harvesting, cloud seeding and factories to process and develop money-making products, the clan becomes unnecessary and the concept of violence becomes a thing of the past. Similar plans could be employed in the economic, political, military and social sectors to make clan unnecessary for the average Farah or Halimo. That is the difference between you and me big brother, I provide solutions, some attainable tomorrow others we need a few years to reach them, but reach them we will. You however don't stimulate the mind, you only seek to perish the heart, and bury the soul, because in your world nothing good will come from Somalia, we should just forget about it, lose hope, because its one big clan-orgy, hallelujah! Not me!

NGONGE;929182 wrote: ^^ It is not really a book. It's a load of nonsense. It's a book, though it would fall under the novella category. I see a lot of potential, most 12 year olds have short attention spans, and lack the discipline to finish what they have started. Kudos to her, I just hope her future stories have a more Somali flavour

Daqane;917109 wrote: It is interesting how keeping the marriage fresh and exciting entails the spending of money and for it to be "romantic" it has to be the guys money somaaha Its necessary sxb, unless you have a magical hat that goes poof and you're in a five day cruise across the Caribbean, you will have to dish out some money to get that experience and enjoy it. Trust me, monotony is what destroys a lot of marriages and relationships. There are many beautiful layers to a woman, and some you will never discover unless you do something exciting and memorable that involves a change of scene, some epic natural wonders and awe-inspiring architecture.

Alpha Blondy;917874 wrote: Adam Zeyla, did you make the occasional appearance to quote some of my posts. LOOL. i'm not sure if i'll be around for your next apparence...specially with what i'm cooking to feed the delegates. LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL. look, with all due respect, i was sincere in my request to Juxa. there is nothing wrong with this. LOOL, did you prepare them some poisoneous dishes that will have the elite of Hargeisa chasing you all across the whirling Sheikh road to Berbera? Haye, I was just joking, I hope you land a beautiful one that ticks all your boxes.

Nin-Yaaban, sorry bro but I have no interest in going through old political topics, xiin has always had the best interest of the country in mind, even when most of us do not see the bigger picture. STOIC;917870 wrote: Chimera, You making it sound like this is a foreign army being organized. We haven't reached yet the helicopters lol...Xiin is just Kaaligii waax garaat...The replication of his bolded print and accusation of comprehension problems is just a cover-up of his barefaced double-standard that only serves to open a gushing wound.No one is disputing the need for all inclusive army and I'm sure it is only logical the president of Somalia to build army from all Somali clans. I doubt anyone will say in a straight face that the Smilling-Somali president is willing to support a moral canibalism of previous Somalia. The President is excellent, I saw him in London and what a great example of a Somali gentleman, very classic throwback to the 60s. I however think we should make sure every fine detail has been analysed and processed to prevent a repeat of the past. Helicopters and tanks are easy to come by, Turkey alone has the industry to equip us several times more than we need, and they are interested in doing so, therefore getting the hardware is not the problem, its who will man them that is the most important issue. Yes, with a crappy clan-system like that of ours, this is an important point that needs to be discussed, and yes to some if its not inclusive, it will be considered a foreign army, the way a Somali from a different clan can be seen as a total alien to a Somali from another clan, regardless of the myriad of ties that bond them. Post feudal Japan would have collapsed like a deck of cards if the Meji army consisted solely of a single clan.

Alpha Blondy;908045 wrote: taa naga daa oo and find me one of those 'independent-city-slicker-starbucks-drinking-BAND-B-earning-xalimos who think they're TOO GOOD for somali men. there are a million of unmarried successful somali women who would just love to smother me with LOVE.....! Age: 18-26 SIze: equal opportunity employer Complexison: dark chocolate. NO casaans. Personality: shy at first but a tigeress later on. MUST NEVER undermine me esp in PUBLIC. Tribe: Xamarawi - preferably beesha unuka weyne Accent: Xamarawi (Somali) - British/Canadian English (English) - preferable third language NOT ARABIC!!! Education: irrelevant but will consider anything less than a masters. Assets: Not important. we can SHARE my stuff. she must bring herself ONLY . Left/Right Hand: Left - opposites attract somaha? LOL Islamic sect - Moderate LOL Turn-on's - cleanliness. cooks excellent food. choco chanel No.5 , 2 yrs experience in shukansi talk Turn-off's - lazy, lacks ambitions, unpredictable and lacks femininity. i'm on standby with 100 grams of gold for the mehr. i'll wait. thanks juxa Al. LOL Alpha, xamarawi eh? A xuuxawi is probably what your going to get, you're a classic self-saboteur. Now wyre has the innocence and sharaf that will attract to him some beautiful honeys, no doubt.

I only suffered from binge viewing during my unemployed Jack Bauer days back in the mid 00s, damn it Chloe! The most recent example would be watching all five seasons of the Wire in a span of two weeks somewhere in 2011. I would watch 3 to 4 episodes a day. Start at 9 in the evening and end at 1 o'clock midnight, then I had to wake up 5 hours later lol I hardly follow anything now, but people keep pushing me to watch Breaking Bad, yet I resist, too many stuff on the bucket-list and I do fear the seduction of binge viewing.

Xiin makes sense, and I don't see why he should be insulted for posting and agreeing with a sensible demand for a representative army drawn from all parts of the country. Nobody wants a repeat of the past, just building an army is easy, we want one that is universal and patriotic. We don't want our new army deployed to a region in the country where the people feel like their occupied by a foreign army, we want them to feel like they're being protected by their own sons and daughters. In a petty-clan society like Somalia this takes time and reconciliation. However, the current system of soldier-selection is also the fault of the regional states, if they made their manpower available to the American/ European/ Turkish training programmes the way these regional administrations made their future intellect available for Turkish scholarships, we wouldn't be having this discussion, its a two way street. It is however extremely important for our national interests and the legitimacy of the Federal Government that it's no longer dependent on any foreign force, especially ones with their own agendas. The Somali army that blietzkrieged Ethiopia in the 70s was 40 thousand soldiers strong, I think that is the figure Somalia should aim for, while at the same time push for a 100 thousand man police force disintergrated into independent departments, i.e the Mogadishu Police Department, the Hargeisa Police Department, the Bosaso Police department, the Coastal Police, the National Parks Police, etc. The current Somali soldier is no less disciplined than any of our neighbours who rampage their own citizens on a daily basis, plenty of topics of which circulate on this forum. The only difference is the heavy weaponry. The latter is al-Shabaab's kryptonite, and for Somalis to be able to own the military situation, the way they now own the political process, will have to come in the form of tanks, ships and helicopters.

^LOL, calm and collected. Alpha Blondy;907613 wrote: i have to give it to you adams! you've really surpassed your usual utopian views this time. CLAP CLAP CLAP even the voyeur Lonely Planet guide is better than this pathetic mistake-ridden tour guide, if even that, you've written? you ought to be ashamed of yourself. in one of those classic Frank Gardner moments, the BBC's correspondent, of overpronouncing local places in their local dialects, you CLEARLY demonstrated with the above, that you've no idea of what you're talking about. sxb, respect yourself and the good reputation you've built up through the years. Alpha, never change who you are, you bloody saqajaan, that was hilarious, Frank Gardener kulaha LOL. My guide is well referenced and drawn from a myriad of books and old journals. Now go lurk for my next post you can assault:

I want to travel across the entire country and see the rich heritage of Somalia: South Destinations: Merka and Barawa - Many old mosques, palaces and shrines - The old sections of the cities have houses four or five storeys high - Stone Towers Destination: Warsheikh - Historic mosques and shrines - Pillar tombs - City walls - Ruined houses Destination: Gondershe - Old citadel - many historic mosques and shrines Destination: Luuq - Old city - ruins of historic mosques and tombs Destination: Bardera - Old citadel Destination: Mogadishu - 13th century Arba Rucun mosque - Fakr Ad din Mosque - Jamia University - Almnara Tower - City walls - Shingani - Hamar jajab - old lighthouses - etc Northeast Destination: Taleex -Fortresses of Taleex -Shrines of Sayyid's mother and father Destination: Bosaso -Old palaces of the Alula dynasty -Several Forts -Historic mosques and shrines -Old port Destination: Las Khorey - Palaces of the Gerads - Several fortresses - Old port Destination: Qandala - Old stone city - several palaces and forts Destination: Hafun - ruins of Ancient Opone - ancient harbour - 18th century forts Destination: Hobyo - Many 19th century ruins such as forts and palaces - Ajjuuraan Palace with seven arches. There are also several other important sites and places such as Bargaal, Botiala and Bandar Beyla with lots of historic heritage. Northwest: Destination: Berbera -Old stone city of Biya Guure - a few miles east of Berbera(again ask a local Berberawi to show you the way) -Ancient Dubar fortress Destination: Hargeisa -There should be an old giant Fortress in the city(i think its best if you asked a local Hargeisawi knowlegdeable of the area where the precise location of that large fortress is and he/she might show you even more historical sites which are still unexplored) -Laas Geel rock painting Cave complex Destination: Amud and Abasa -Two large stone cities(you can see some ancient ruins of Amud if you type ''Amud,Somalia'' in google images) (^ both of those cities are situated in the Borama area which is close to Hargeisa) Destination: Saylac - Sa'ad ad Din Island and the medieval ruins and shrines - Old City walls - Ruins of the old quarter of the city - Qiblatain Mosque and others (Saylac is in the Awdal province and close by Borama) Destination: Bulhar -Ancient Port city with lots of historical relics (close to Saylac) Destination: Heis -Ancient city with lots of relics (close to Berbera) Destination: Mait -Ancient city with many ruins (next to Heis) Destination: Erigavo - Ancient Stone city of Maduna in Eel Afweyn which is close to Erigavo(type in Maduna, Somalia in google images and you will see some interesting remains of that city) - Dervish Fortresses in Erigavo ETC....

This sounds like some fruit that could turn me into a super-saiyan. I think its too good to be true, like that Popeye the sailorman cartoon and his spinache propaganda, yeah its healthy but you don't get muscles without pumping that iron lol.

Aaliyyah;905134 wrote: I heard the lady who pushed the man said she thought he was a muslim but he turned out to be Hindu. How ignorant, it reminds me of my revert friend who the first year kept saying "Salaam" to every Sikh LOOL. I still call him out on that.

Abtigiis big bro, you still got it.

Its the Age of Chimeras, the dream of a rebirth is in full swing no matter how you twist it, the Age of cynical-pessimistic NGONGES & the wax-fahan crew is becoming obsolete fast.

NGONGE;904314 wrote: ^^ It's a logistic nightmare, saaxib. I don't believe such a "mass exodus" is taking place. Hundreds of Somali refugees return home daily December 31, 2012 Hundreds of Somali refugees living in Kenya's urban areas are heading home after the Kenyan government earlier this month ordered their repatriation or relocation to refugee camps, UN-funded Radio Bar-Kulan reported Monday (December 31st). At least 400 Somalis head to Mogadishu from Nairobi airports dail y, said Somali Ambassador to Kenya Mohamed Ali Nur. Mohamed Bare Mahamud of Africa Crown World Travel estimated that 9,000 people left Kenya for Somalia over the past two weeks . LINK At this pace, I estimate between 100 - 250 thousand Somalis from Kenya alone will be returning to Mogadishu and Somalia by the end of 2013. An exodus through and through!