Nicely put Jamal! Simply beautiful. ope you've got it copy written bro!

I used to have a home. Now all around the world i roam. I am a product of my people's hate. I'm a casualty of my society's burned down state. All my life i wanted to belong. Why am i paying for what my people did wrong? I'm stuck on a foreign soil. And yet from peace i recoil. Due to an inbred ignorance. I end up ruining my only chance. My grave is dug in the civilized west. And yet only in the east i can rest. If only i was grateful enough en wise. I could finally realise. How much my coutry should be worth to me. And how happy in it we could be. I am really tired of being a guest. My dear Somalis let's start a quest. To win back something we los long ago. And build our country slow by slow. Hate didn't get us anywhere. So where do we go from here?

Hey everyone. I've recently discovered a phenomena knows as paltalk. First, my sister started going on it, and she couldn't stay away from the computer screen. I dismissed her addiction as one born out of boredom. I tried it myself, but couldn't see what was soo exciting about it.... One day, during the summer, i try to see what was the attraction that had many somalians in it's grip. A purely scientific research i confinsed myself. Little did i know about luuq and koofi and all the endearing paltalk chit-chat. During my first visit i was generally ignored and found myself bored witless, due to not participating. I concluded that there was nothing fun about it after all and closed my acount down. But as you can guess, i tried it again. This second time i was accused of being too quiet. Was i a man with a girls name perhaps? And people were filling up in my private (luuq)and were writing somali..a language i can speak perfectly but can't write fluently. After several miserable attempts i became wiser. Firstly i learned how to close my luuq, make it exclusieve. Then i started to feel less awkward and contribute to the conversation by board. Then i got more friends and started to wear a big shiny koofi at times. As you can imagine i was queen of my castle, throwin people out if they offended me or for the simple reason of being too boring.i became e real "heer magaal". What started of as a trip down curiosity lane became a full blown obsession. I found myself being on paltalk for as long as i could. staying up all night and not wantin to sleep during the day. Eating became a hazard and if away from my computer, i suffered from withdrawl syndromes. i.e. lack of attention annoyance....Anyway, now i'm back to normal and am limiting my "intake" of paltalk to less and less hours. I'm glad to say that i have come back to normal, altough i still enjoy having a full room in paltalk. Thanks to paltalk i have discovered that conversing in somali was fun, and i have learned how to write our language. A valuable lesson indeed. Also, i can now officially sing along when at somali parties thanx to fananiinta paltalk. So tell me, how was your paltalk experience?

Hey shayma, a very intresting question.For our women being termed as "garoob" is worse than being in an unhappy marriage. Garoobs are seen as used goods, to put it bluntley. Most somalian men, not all, want a virgin bride. No matter how old they are. You also have to think that once a women marries, all her single friends disappear. She becomes a family woman. And once she is single again, she is still a family woman and can only relate to other married women. So it's hard for her to get back to single life. And also her friends might be understanding, but they don't want to be around someone who has seen more of life. And in our tradition, single women aren't supposed to talk to once married women, as they should have nothing left to talk about...so i think that divorced women can't get back on the maritable scene, as they have had their go on marriage. Not nice way to see "garoobs" but thats how some people view them within our tradition. Single and mother don't go together in our way of life...

This is a little somethin i nicked for ur viewing, hope you enjoy it! 50 shiling - singing] wembley City! You are now rapping... with 50 shilingz u gotta lvoe it i jus wana sit and chew the qaad keep chewing till 7-45 these faaraxs drive me crazy I **** all these faaraxz next to me I provide everything and I Like my smile when u see my teeth u wil cry Got some questions that I got to ask and I Hope you can come up with the answers babe [***** Dogg ] Nayaa... it's easy to love me now Would you love me if I was down and out? Would you still have love for me? Girl... it's easy to love me now Would you love me if I was down and out? Would you still have love for me? Girl... [50 Cent] If I Became a farax 2morow would you still love me? If I smelled of sigaar would you still hug me? If the Qaad never arrived for quarter century could I count on you to be there to support me mentally? If I went back to a ford-escort from a Benz would you poof, and disappear, like some of my friends? If I was shot in the legs in the war and I was hurt would you be by my side? If i 2 skinny would you be down to ride? I'm askin questions to find out how you feel inside If I was a bus driver and worrked in Burger King would you be ashamed to tell your friends you feelin me? In the bed i was a 1 minute man , would you like that? If I wrote u a cheque for toban gini, would you write back? Now somedayz u know i make money driving cabs And we could go do what you like, I know you like that [Nate AY] Nayaa... it's easy to love me now Would you love me if I was down and out? Would you still have love for me? Girl... it's easy to love me now (Woo!) Would you love me if I was down and out? Would you still have love for me? Girl... [50 shilingz] Now would you leave me if your father, found out I was CHEWING? Do you believe me when I tell you, you the one I'm lovin? Are you mad cause I'm chewing 21 mijood? Are you my soulmate? Cause if so, girl you're a blessin Do you trust me enough, to tell me u use DIANA? I'm staring at ya trying to figure how you got in that diric If i was depressed from busaarad would you say things to make me smile? I treat you how you want to be treated just teach me how If I was with some other xaliimo and someone happened to see and when you asked me about it I said it wasn't me would you believe me, or slap me? How deep is our bond if that's all it takes for you to be gone? We only SOMALIANZ girl we make mistakes To get the QAAD I'LL DO whatever it take I love you like a MAALI LOVE QAAD You know my style, I'll say anything to make you smile [***** ay] Girl... it's easy to love me now Would you love me if I was down and out? Would you still have love for me? Girl... it's easy to love me now Would you love me if I was down and out? Would you still have love for me? Girl... Could you love me in a wembley? Could you love me on a bus? I'll ask 21 questions, and they all about us Could you love me in a job center? Could you love me on a bus? I'll ask 21 questions, and they all about us Itz A Outh There Pre Production !!

Somali remix that that i nicked for ur viewing, hope you enjoy it! 50 shiling - singing] wembley City! You are now rapping... with 50 shilingz u gotta lvoe it i jus wana sit and chew the qaad keep chewing till 7-45 these faaraxs drive me crazy I **** all these faaraxz next to me I provide everything and I Like my smile when u see my teeth u wil cry Got some questions that I got to ask and I Hope you can come up with the answers babe [***** Dogg ] Nayaa... it's easy to love me now Would you love me if I was down and out? Would you still have love for me? Girl... it's easy to love me now Would you love me if I was down and out? Would you still have love for me? Girl... [50 Cent] If I Became a farax 2morow would you still love me? If I smelled of sigaar would you still hug me? If the Qaad never arrived for quarter century could I count on you to be there to support me mentally? If I went back to a ford-escort from a Benz would you poof, and disappear, like some of my friends? If I was shot in the legs in the war and I was hurt would you be by my side? If i 2 skinny would you be down to ride? I'm askin questions to find out how you feel inside If I was a bus driver and worrked in Burger King would you be ashamed to tell your friends you feelin me? In the bed i was a 1 minute man , would you like that? If I wrote u a cheque for toban gini, would you write back? Now somedayz u know i make money driving cabs And we could go do what you like, I know you like that [Nate AY] Nayaa... it's easy to love me now Would you love me if I was down and out? Would you still have love for me? Girl... it's easy to love me now (Woo!) Would you love me if I was down and out? Would you still have love for me? Girl... [50 shilingz] Now would you leave me if your father, found out I was CHEWING? Do you believe me when I tell you, you the one I'm lovin? Are you mad cause I'm chewing 21 mijood? Are you my soulmate? Cause if so, girl you're a blessin Do you trust me enough, to tell me u use DIANA? I'm staring at ya trying to figure how you got in that diric If i was depressed from busaarad would you say things to make me smile? I treat you how you want to be treated just teach me how If I was with some other xaliimo and someone happened to see and when you asked me about it I said it wasn't me would you believe me, or slap me? How deep is our bond if that's all it takes for you to be gone? We only SOMALIANZ girl we make mistakes To get the QAAD I'LL DO whatever it take I love you like a MAALI LOVE QAAD You know my style, I'll say anything to make you smile [***** ay] Girl... it's easy to love me now Would you love me if I was down and out? Would you still have love for me? Girl... it's easy to love me now Would you love me if I was down and out? Would you still have love for me? Girl... Could you love me in a wembley? Could you love me on a bus? I'll ask 21 questions, and they all about us Could you love me in a job center? Could you love me on a bus? I'll ask 21 questions, and they all about us Itz A Outh There Pre Production !!

Jesus was looking down on earth, and he saw that more than anything, the drugs problem was getting out of hand. He said to his apostles "This addiction is making people forget about me." He watched th behaviour of the people and came to a conclusion. " I am out of touch with my people, to get them on the righ path again, i have to know what i am competing against. Jacob, go to Colombia and get me a kilogram of pure cocaine. john visit Morocco for some hashish. Mathew, I heard Jamaican Ganja is popular amongs young people, get me a suply. Judas, just go anywhere where there is plenty of XTC. Bring what i ask of you, my apostls, to beat evil, we have to know what the evil consists of." So the apostles went to carry out jesus' errands. After a while, john walked in. "Here is the hashish you requsted melord" He was emidiatly followed by a worried jacob " mylord, those south americans sure drive a hard bargain, i had to spend more money, but i've got the cocaine." Some hours later, mathew came in with a smile, impressed with the jamaican friendlyness "Ganja seems good for the mentallity mylord, everyone was welcoming me." Jesus was pleased with his apostles and was eagerly awaiting judas. Hours went and jesus became a bit concrned for judas. Just when he was about to send john to look for him, the door was knocked down by judas and some strange looking men......"FREEZE, THIS IS THE F.B.I. PUT THE DRUGS ON THE TABLE AND LINE UP AGAINST THE WALL NOW!!! :eek:

That restaurant is notorious. View weeks back, my cousn went there with a group of girls(somehow the girls go in groups to that restaurant). After making sure he spent all of his mony, they wouldn't even give him their digits. They told him "don't call us, we'll call you!" lol, serves him right though,tryin to be a playa!

Hello everyone, I just wanted to tell you a little story about the dating schemes in London. A man took three girls to a posh somali restaurant in london. They stuffed themselves with three course meal and some desserts and even had coffee italian style. The man watched them with a secretive smile and said he was popping out for a sigarette and that they should finish of the meal. As you can guess, the man never came back. The poor girls had run up a large bill and had no money on them. They begged the owner to let them call someone that could pay for them. Some weeks later,one of the girls heard that some man wanted to take two of here friends to the same restaurant. Being wise now, she told her, "naya, sidi la ii galay iska jir. Intoo na kaa tagin ka soo dhuumo qumayga. sheekadiisa london dhan aa tagaano qurunka" So the other girls went with a man who wanted to date one of them. The poor guy had saved up for weeks to treat them. After they finished their meal, they said to him that they were going to do their make-up and left the poor guy looking like a fool. He saw the girl he liked four days later, walking down a somali neighbourhood. And you can guess how he felt.."qumayo calool weeyn! cunto daraadeed maad ii shukaansaheeysay? Lug iyo labo ba allah kaa gooyo!" That restaurant is famous for the actions that happen there troughout london. Just take mony if you ever visit it!

Salaan sare clown, I think everyone is seeing this topic in their own way. Like somealien, i don't believe in the romanticed image of "Giving" your virginity because of you being inlove. I have had many arguments with male "friends" because of their ****** ideas about intigrating in a european socity. I'm against sext before marriage because i've been thaught that a girls virtues lies in her modesty, just like many of my islamic sisters. And our men weren't raised to be bad, but like in every society, we have our bad seeds. And they seem to be spreading. They have convinced themselves that somethings are OK. And some girls(A minority) are easily persuaded that its alight to give into men, somali and non-somali, because they are "inlove". I believe that if a person isready to have sex, they are more than ready to get married. Does that answer your question clown? What is your opinion in this?

Dear somealien, it's not about judging people, its just about bringing an issue out in the open. I don't like to judge others on their behaviour because i am not perfect myself. And i am not defending those that act according to certain stereotypes. I just care about our people and traditions. And ignoring something won't make it go away. Do you disagree?

Hello to all my brothers and sisters. Not so long ago i had a big argument with a male friend of mine. It seems to me that more and more of us are ending up in a "relationship" which involves sex. My friend thought it was ok if the girl was ready for it an if the couple were seriously devoted to one another. "at least it is better than losing a guy to a foreigner who is putting it out" i was told. Come on now, am i te only one who believes that no matter how serious you are or how inlove, sex should not a major part. When it does become essential, get married. That was the way of our parents. The way of our religion. So why s it that more brothers are putting pressure on heir girlfriends to sleep with them? And why are we girls losing our virtue because of curiosity? As all rational minded somalis know, once a girl has been around the block, no man, respected or otherwise, will want her. Not even the one she trusted and gave her virginity to. Some of our boys have become so corrupted that they assure a girl that it's Ok, they will marry her anyway. I can understand how naive us girls can be when we think we love someone, but what happened to looking out for one another? My friend asked me if iwas just cold or jaded. Nither one. I just believe in death before dishonour. My question to you guys would be, would you expect a girl to sleep with you if you have dated her for some time?

Hi brothers and sisters. Life in a foreign country is hard, no matter how old you are and wether you are male or female. We somalians are stuck with our culture, and it is hard to be traditional in a foreign country. Our somalian mothers are srill trying to keep their children on the straight path, while our fathers have lost their status. Those of them who were respected in their country find it especially hard to cope in a strange country. It doesn't help when all somalians are said to be on welfare and involved in frauds. I remember back in the day, when we were still a nation united. there was a support network and you knew who your neighbours were. You would hear if one of your children was involved in something that was considered wrong, and people generally looked out for one another. Now we are stuck in countries that see us as a burdon. Some of us have gotten wrong ideas about integrating into the european system and have taken all the bad habbits of the country they are in. And some somalians are forgetting where they came from. I'm lucky enough to still remember how sweet life was when we had our own country and were in a place that truly was home. Now I see that young people are finding it hard to speak our language. It hurts me to see my brothers behaving worse than anybody by selling drugs and drinking alcohol. And as if that wasn't enough, we are still looking down at one another. We are teaching our children that we are better than other somalians because of their life style. I come from a family that has taught me that actions count more than appearance. So while I don't wear xijaab, I still have great respect for my religion, tradition and people. How many girls wear xijaab and still get around with their boyfriends? When there is a ruwaayat, what makes it ok to wear mini skirts and backless tops? I'm not saying that all my sisters who wear xijaab are willing to take it of at a party. Those girls who keep it real have my respect and admiration. But what makes it ok to ignore eachother on the street if one of us is weareing xijaab and the other isn't? I always say "asalamu calaikum" when I see a somalian person. Last, I came across an old lady and greeted her. She gave me a dirty look and walked past. What I'm saying is basically this, how can we expect people in somalia to act right, if we have come abroad with the same wrong acts and ways of life? After so many years of killing each other and being killed, so many years of being a refugee, way have we not learn our lesson yet? When will we learn from our mistakes? I hope I haven't bored you with my opinion. It's just that I remember the way things used to be and see what has happened to us.