Salaan... A Soomaali without Islam is like a person wearing a trouser without underwear. A Soomaali who doesn't speak or write Soomaali--whatever the excuse--and proudly says so in-your-face is like a ghost among people. A Soomaali without his dhaqan is like...well, without any clothes. Thus, if you are Soomaali plus Muslim plus with dhaqan: 100% Soomaali. Soomaali plus Muslim but without dhaqan {including not speaking the language}: 80% Soomaali. Soomaali minus Muslim and minus dhaqan: 20% Soomaali. I can hardly imagine associating with--even though I had seen--a Soomaali without his Islamic faith. I cannot even for now give a second thought a Soomaali without af Soomaali. __________________ Macsalaama.

Salaan... Che-Guevara: Noo, I didn't go the area where Hotel Guuleed is located at. I believe it is in Huriwaa area, which is not a good area now. Xafka, LoL. The Axmed Gureey Statue ani even markaa Xamar joogay aala fujistay in '92, but what is so worse is that now in that place, some cows are sitting right in the middle of the Isgoyskaas KM-4. Bermuudana isbaaro mataalo, lakiin xaafada wali ma fiicno. My xaafad really si xunee u galeen, inkaar qabiyaasha. Muraad, duqa, Bashiir Lugeey aa? LooooooL. Ar banooni maxaa ku ciyaarey meeshaas. You know barxadiis. It is so large and had good bacaad. I really wished inaa soo arki lahaa Barxadii Bashiir Lugeey. Horta manool yahay asaga? Lakiin Kaasa Balbalaare shaneemada ma ugu dhaafin dhanka kale, meeshee ku taalay camal Footo Kaah iyo meelahaas kale ma tagin. Shaneemada xataa baabuur aa saarnaa markaa masawiraayi, marka xataa gees gees waaye masawirka. You know Kaasa Balbalaare beysaani aa daganaa iyo gaalo. Especially the road that comes from straight from Taleex oona ku dhacaayo darbiga shaneemada, meeshaas aa Jimco walbo mari jirnay, anagoo banooni aadnay ama soo fiirsanay. Our elder brothers used to play banooni at Warshada Kookada barxadii kasoo horjeeday. So marka gaaladaan guryahooda aa dhagax iyo tuuryo ku rafaadin jirnay markaa soo noqono. Ar maxaa dhibnay. __________________ Macsalaama.

Salaan... Originally posted by Bari_Nomad: I was so young all I remember is runnig by the tv(playing) and seeing my dad watching boring news AGAIN and AGAIN! No problem, sir. We can easily decode your message and it simply comes to: I watched all day long watching my dad watch the geel. It is hokey, we didn't even had tv much too, thus you aren't alone. ___________________ Some of you are talking about SoomaaliTv and you dared to forget the annoyous program on our tv at that time: Nucmaan and his sidekick Mansuul. "Keyfa xaalak yaa Nucmaan?" "Hadaa Mansuul, inta yaa..." Shuut. :mad: Waxaa ka necbaa majirin that shuluq-futac-butac costumed-guy. Him and the Carabi news at 9:00 p.m. I even can remember the anchor's face clearly now. Other shows included this Jarmal drama. Its opening had this bistoolad, and always used to start a person being killed and this old Jarmal dude would investigate. Don't remember its name. My still favourite show is Socdaalka Aduunka though. Cowke is my man. _______________ Macsalaam.

Originally posted by Baashi: MMA, Woooooooow :cool: imagine that! we were classmates if u went Xassan Cilmi Qariindi elementary school in Hawlwadaag. Such a small world! Perhaps, LoL. But I don't know since a lot of my brothers and sisters attended Hawlwadaag Hoose Dhexe. I started in '84 and when the war started I was in grade 6 or 7, I guess. Cumar Boodboodle {what a name, } was my principal. Adi ciyaal Hawlwadaag oo Hodan u dhaw maa ahayd? OG-Moti, brother, haa yaqeey soo gili hadaa soo gilin kartid masawirada. Waa laguu fasaxay ee soo gili hadii awoodid. They are all yours. Illmatic, duqa, Isbitaalka Xooga agtiisa maa sheegee, mise dhanka Sarihii Ruushka? Ani baabuur lee ku socday, I ain't dared to walk, ee anoo baabuurka ku jiro lee qaaday masawirada qaarkood, like the Tarbuunka one. ___________________ Macsalaama.

Salaan... Originally posted by Darman: whats up with Banadir hospital?!! :confused: :confused: everybody who was born in Xamar was born in Banadir hospital? is it the only hospital there or what?!! :rolleyes: If I am not mistaken, Isbitaal Banaadir was the only isbitaal that had a modern maternity ward when most of us were born at that time. Later Isbitaal Madiino got one of its own. Anibo waxaa ku dhashay Isbitaal Banaadir. ________________ Macsalaama.

Salaan... Originally posted by nomadrebell: ...ITS FUNNY YOU SAID YOU DID NOT GO OTHER PARTS OF MOGADISHU BECAUSE OF YOUR SAFETY AND YOU WENT THE MOST UNSAFE AND DESTROYED AREA OF MOGADISHU. WELL WE GOT YOUR POINT MY NOMAD FRIEND AND I ALREADY MADE MY CONCLUSION TO YOUR PICS'!!! PEOPLE CAN CLICK THIS LINKS OF YOUR PICTURES AND MAKE THEIR OWN CONCLUSIONS Widaay, mey ki daarey? Wah. I went that worst area because it was where I grew up, and where both my parents refused to leave, thus still living there. I took those pictures with some caution, ee ma iga aha Xamar wax kasheeg. God. No person on this earth loves the way I love Xamar. Do not come to conclusion that quickly, and I showed you Taleex, the best xaafad now in Xamar. You didn't see that picture? What about the Jidka Sodonka picture? If I'm not mistaken, it seems that you used to live at Hajji Muqtaar's neighborhood. Widaaygiis, Baashi, I am Sheekh Mukhtaar's son. How quick aa xaafada ku kastay aa igu daran bo. Sxb sawirradaadii lamaba arko Kuwa aa aniga ku jiro standing on Xamar streets, they are charged extra $$$, LoL. Anyway, sawiradda hada waa arki doontaa, waa sameeyi kistoo. __________________ Macsalaama.

Salaan... Cajiib! Cajiib! Dadkeena mee faraha nooga qaato, kalabta kalabta dhashay, yaa ximaar dheh. Soomaali yaa ka qurux badan, qaas ahaan gabdhaheen? Her article just proved that. Nothing else. ________________ P.S.: Barwaaqo, you are finally a moderator. You know I was tired of lobbying the Admin. What is my quid-pro-quo? ________________ Macsalaama!!

Heey, guys, soooooori, I think there might be some problems. I sent a PM to the Admin., so be patient... raali ahaada. you can also copy-and-paste if you can't see any image. try that, it might work for you as some have done

Some further more... This is Shaneemo Kaasa Balbalaare, fittingly popularly also known as Shaneemo Shuun. It is across from Isteeshinka Hodan. Tarbuunka. The only building Siyaad Barre built that had not succumbed to the civil war. This is Taleex. It is where my Abti's house is located and the safest and best xaafad in Xamar now. It was also where I was staying. If you look carefully above the left house, you will see the MINARET of Masaajidka C/rashiid. Don't you also love the bacaad on the field??? Reminds me the true caro maanyo. :cool: This is Haantii Carwada. Note with its famous long encompassing wall that is well known of Carwada. It is, yeah, Carwadii sanadkii mar la furi jiray oona ku taalay Taleex. That carwo is carved now. One part is masaajid. One other part being a garaash baabuur {pictured below}, and other parts are occupied by refugees. The garaash that is part of Carwada now. Where I used to play Kadhimeey Kadhim at my xaafad. How scary and cidlo it is now. ____________________ I hope you enjoyed. Dalkeena Ilaahey ha inoogu dhigo nabad: Aamiin. Iyo wadankii bar baaro: Aamiin.

Continued... This is Jidka Sodonka. A building next to Carwada Iidkoow. Note how Jidka Sodonka looks like. Baabuurta meeshee rabaan ay marayaan. Ninba naftaa, nabiyoow ummadaa aaka socotaa jidadka Xamar. Isbartiibada. Its main gate. It is now occupied by some refugees. Isbartiibada from another angle. On that day, it was raining, beautiful. I mean kuleelkii aa first time ka neefsaday ay ahayd. And this was my xaafad, where I literally grew up. It is just in front of our house. This is also called Bermuuda now, the most dangerous section in Xamar. It is a ghost town; it is completely obliterated, badly destroyed; hardly a house stands. The only house that still stands is ours, and it is because of my father who never left from it. That jid goes to Dabka, it comes from Isgoyska Bakaaraha. This house is exactly across from our house. It used to be, O Lord, a luxury house. How I wish if the owner had been able to see it, I am sure she would have fainted. This is Bermuuda also. The opposite site. This way now goes to Isgoyska Bakaaraha from Dabka. Note how scary the houses look. You would have never thought any soul ever lived there. As a boy maqaayadii aa sanbuuska ka cuni jiray, located just next to our house. What a qashin iyo sida loo fiiq fiiqday. Also the next house to Maqaayada was owned by Reer Uunlaaye, the very second richest family in Soomaaliya at that time. Our xaafad at the back. Where I used to play some banooni maalin walba. Some more...

Salaan... Note: I edited, if you are able to see them now, good, if not then...} ___________________ Some of you guys, nomads, had asked me if I have any pictures from Xamar. I do. However, since it is easier to show you all in here rather than individually, well here you have them now. They are not many, but heey, I did my part and tried to be a bit geesi, hokey. And if you are looking the pictures of Curuba, Jubba, Badda Liido, Jasiira, etc well then I love my life and I wasn't going to risk to go places like them at all. Anyway, here they are: Just after I arrived in Xamar {the airport was located outside of it, a town called Cisaleey} and just outside that make-shift airport, I saw those great geeliyaal. Besides of reminding me of my childhood memories of geeloow gumbalalax song, I immediately also remembered you SOL-nomadic guys. I then said myself, "Heck how dare can I miss not to take this opportunity by shooting some shots." I told the driver of the car and his armed-staff to stop. I then took several pictures of those geel. I would have loved to take more, but the driver with his armed-staff were getting a bit annoyed, thinking to themselves, "Xoolahaan xayawaanka masawiranaayo muxuu ahaa?". Note the PERFECT CLOUDLESS BEAUTIFUL Soomaali blue sky. Also our ocean is just couple yards away and ooh, how I wished to go there. Well, there you go and have another look of geel. Since I irritated some armed-gangs to take those shots marka idinka maa idiin daahaa. And a final one. This is Carwada Iidkoow. It was the largest mall in Xamar back when nabad was nabad. It had everything. Today this is how it looks like. On the next page....

Salaan... Johhny English. Bean Busts Bond--Beautiful. _______________ Macsalaam.

Salaan... Originally posted by Mobb_Deep: 1. Make Somalia two federal states. Somaliland and Southern Somalia. 2. Move the capital to Hargiesa 3. Change the name of the country to Somaliland 4. Acknowledge the suffering of the poeple of the north. 5. Make the first president of Somalia someone from Somaliland. After the first 5 years, if someone from the South is elected as the president, the priminister should always be from Somaliland. ^^^^^^^ I think Paltalk's radical and militant approach to Soomaaliland in his thread makes even more sense than what you listed above. Marka waxaa rabtaa Reer Soomaaliland inee isbishaal laga dhigo oo buur lasaaro? The map is beautiful and makes a lot of sense, however I am not into federal camp. Centralized Soomaaliya is my opinion. _______________ Macsalaama.

Salaan... Nafiso, walaashiis, magac malaguu weynaayo. Ee waakanaa, and if you take it, I will be honoured: Istaahil. I love this name. And it is unique among in this forum. Rawla, waa biloowdey ma'ahoo? Musee Kibara waa kuu kastay. Waryaana waa laguu aqanaa, kan kale xaas ahaa? Wewe umbaya kabisa, xagiyaa Mungo. You think iko hakuna sawaaxili, nah...I even can speak Atareeree ooka-ahaa ahaa, you know af Kiikuuyo. Funny luuqad. _________________ Macsalaama!!

Salaan... No need to scale. Tii niiko taqaano hasoo gisho, tii kale foori ganjeelo. Beydaaaaaankaaaa...soo hoobiyeee...imikoo isii...MIDIG kadhow...BIDIX kadhow sii sii malaboow...sanjab...sanjab Or: Bakara bakara...baabuurka ii jooji...meylaa ka dahooyaa....iyaaah....isii ________________ Macsalaama.

Salaan... Originally posted by raula: MMA..ileen waaliwadhnooshahay..(man I told you to help me with my somali..but you refused...see now I dont even know if I wrote the right wordings)... hey, why dont you make up one for me too...just for the sake of it... Waa noolahay maa sheegtaa wali waa xamaalanoyaa ee ka kac. Waa laguu hayaa a nice username for you, and since I always use hyphenated nicks, here are those that loosely describe your character: Waji-Macbuus Waji-Makaroofi Waji-Alwaax Soo dooro midkaa jeclaatid and then definitions will be provided, hokey. ________________ Macsalaama.

Salaan... Do you guys really watch all of these shows on tv? Almost of those shows, I never watched any of them. And booy, am I glad that I didn't. I am glad I don't have cable, and I hardly watch tv, well besides Peter Mansbridge on National on CBC. P.S.: Today I read from the paper that there is a new gay-themed "reality" show coming up. It is titled Boy Meets Boy, and it will be on Bravo! channel. One more reason not to have a cable. _______________ Macsalaama.

Salaan... Do not blame Xamar itself. Blame those who came to it from God-knows where. And they brought their nastiest nomadic actions to Xamar. Them should go whence they came from originally and leave Muqdisho as it was prior to 1990--Xamar belongs to ciyaal xamar--all of them. ps. do u have any pictures/stories to share about ur visit? Please tell me how the ppl are doing. thanks. Yeah, I do have a lot of pictures, especially me standing in the midst of Bermuuda—near to Isgooyska Bakaaraha. It is worst xaafad in Xamar now, which was where I grew up. Congratulate me how geesi I was standing just there. That xaafad si xunaa loo galay. Balaaya basaa heshay. The only former government-owned public places that looks exactly the same is Tarbuunka. That place is really the same. I think shubkii lagu dhisay aa adkaa. Now, at the nearby of Tarbuunka, like Isbitaalka Xooga and Sarihii Ruushka, it became xarunta jaadka lagu gado. The best road is also located in Tarbuunka area. It is the avenue from KM-4 which goes all the way to Tarbuunka to Jidka Sodonka. I think it is called Jidka Banaadir. This road and the adjoining one, Taleex Avenue, are the best roads in Xamar. And the best xaafad is Taleex, which I was staying. Newly built houses were booming in Taleex and Carwadda area. However, you can’t recognize Isgooyska Kaasa Balbalaare. I was looking, kept saying, "Where is the isgooys? Where?" When I was finally shown, I had travelled on that route before and hadn't had any idea it was the isgooys I had seen because much of it had changed. In the middle of the isgooys itself, there are some baraako-built stores. Almost all other isgooyses I had seen had been converted like that. The worst is located in right middle of Jidka Sodonka, now called Black Sea—where they sell jaad, shidaal and car equipments, all side by side on the road. I must say that if you can drive a car in Xamar, you are a masterful driver, much more like a NASCAR-driver. It is not really that simple. Where chaos and anarchy prevails, they still try their best to drive like there are laws to obey. The funniest is some drive on the wrong side of the road because the other way is badly damaged, thus avoiding. By then driving on the wrong, illegal side, they fight with the other upcoming traffic. And honking of cars is thus on all the time, with: "War ka leexo meesha...War intee u socotaa adiga...War jidkaaga ku soco kan dhanka kale waaye..." Masaajidka C/rashiid still stands too. I prayed there one Friday with a lot of gazing and staring from the standbys. I must admit I was enjoying the celebrity status at that moment. And the stunning moment was when one evening I tried to have a conversation with some kids in that Taleex xaafad. They immediately stopped their conversation, and start questioning me, like, "In lagu afduubo maa rabtaa maxaa banaanka u joogtaa?" I was really astounded with a question like that. I told them, "Heey, I am as Soomaali as you." I simply asked why would anyone kidnap me; they reasoned because I am from 'qurba.' It was rather shocking because I never expected 10-year-olds asking a question like that. _________________ Macsalaama!

Salaan... Quite-Storm, duqa, what happened to your vacation in Toronto? Is this how you enjoy it? Naga daa. Kamoon, soco soo neerso. Banaanka aad. CN Tower soo arag. If you already did, then give a visit to Toronto Zoo. Not tired yet, then our large cute-built referential library at Bloor and Yonge would do. Soco a lot of faranj faniila soo cab while sitting the park between the Dixon buildings. You will see a lot of ..., I promise. Kamoon, duqa, enjoy while you are in Koronto. Iska dhaaf waxaan kale. _________________ Macsalaama.

Salaan... As I can see a lot folks are changing their kastuumooyin, why not my cali falaax then. Might change to two of my very favourite nick-names: Jinoole-aw-Jacburis {JaJ} Xariif-Xaaji-Xuux {XXX} So, what do you think, any suggestions? _________________ Macsalaama.

Salaan... Did you not see my VA boys.Heard they were the bomb especially among the uuhmmmm girls.Year after year they suck on the field but bombs else where There was a Virginian team in this year? I didn't know. I only went there twice and I had only seeing some xiito-xiito guys from Columbus and others. _______________ Macsalaama.

Salaan... Meeshaan waaba la igu camiranoyaa bo. Wah. Ha i kashifina idinka. Well, indhanuursi maxaa loogu baahnaan waaye from SARS to Mad Cow Disease--mugdiyaaba galnee. But honestly those friends aaba kajoogi waaye, balaayo waday. _______________ Macsalaama.

Salaan... Originally posted by Quite -Storm: LooooL I know what you mean but as a somalilander i don't eat cake, i eat Meat and drink Canoo Gaaal....and Shukansi Alot when i am not Eating or drinking..... Hoo canbuuladaana ku darso. Don't tell me Soomaalilanders don't eat canbuulo either. It is only banooni. Is daji. I was with Northern Stars because I thought in laga ciyaar fiicnaa, and me always supporting the underdogs, I did support them until they scored. Well, then I turned to other underdogs. And you guys have won--what would have happened if you had lost??? Calanka baluuga waala jeex jeexi lahaa ma'ahoo? ________________ Macsalaama.

Salaan... The usc ethnically cleaned xamar of all other clans I can assure you that today Xamar--since I was there in this past April--is lived by all walks of Soomaali qabiils without any fear--unless you are rich or from qurba, that is. Yes, still, it is unsafe, but tell me where there lives multi-qabiil that is safe? Name it? As you had chosen Gaalkacyo, the two clans that dominate in that area still can't agree with which ceel biyaha laga dhaansado markaas aa capital leedahay. I once said that do not open unneccesary cracks. We already have tons of troubles to deal with. Majority of folks do still support Xamar as a capital, not because of qabiil but because of location and history. And final reason: I went to Xamar, and noo I am not a card-carrying USC qabiil member. I might have afraid for my life because coming from qurba than qabiil. Go and see Xamar for yourself. It will change a lot of your perception--either negatively or positively. _______________ Macsalaama!!

Salaan... Too many Naasocaanood topics in this section, don't you think? _________________ Macsalaama.