I’m bored to death….I hate all kids, last night my little nephew planted a smile on my face when he lifted my shirt up while I was making my sujjud for Isha prayer and starting whirling around me while pointing finger at my fanny and murmured the word “ Hahaa you are faaaanyy! (Sp? Funny).I laughed so hard and stepped out of the salah.He just turned two years last week! Kids are a gift.Sometimes

Cadaan, Perhaps that word will be clearer with the following explanation knowing that you can read Somali (although my writing bleeds).The word reminds me awhile back while in the company of fellow Somalis in a shopping plaza a white couple with a beat up car pulled over to a parking lot next to us.For some reason their car broke down and they had to ask for help, which we offered.One of the Somali guys, being poetic as we are said, “Waar niyahoow baahaasha busaaraada galaada kufoolxuuma niin mathoow balogutalagalaay” (SP?) From this statement you should understand that our subconscious mind tells us that it is a word reserved for the colored folks.Not that we believe that we are doomed to poverty, but just that the majority of us fit in that category!

Underdog, The reason I’m telling her to asses herself and do what she likes is because I’m trying to point out to her that no one can help her with a choice. I can tell her to be a doctor, a bum or to download babies every year, but I think rationally this is something she needs to decide for herself. It seems quite significant for her to ask people on what to do, but this is a wrong approach of how to find your calling. Seldom does an individual succeed in life if others are making the choice for them. Her choice of what she wants to do is something she only can find it in perspective. I only disagree with her method of finding what she wants to do in life. She needs to take inventory of herself. I agree with you that education is not the only key to the gate of opportunity. Intelligent planning and imagination can make an individual successful without fancy degrees on the wall. But remember that the goal that she wants to work on will depend on what knowledge she has pertaining to it. I suspect when you talk lightly of education as a means to downplay the importance of it. I’m not going into that. Happiness as you know will not be the reaches of people who don’t plan and demands of themselves the patience and persistence of putting the effort.

Lol@ DR Phil...Sometimes a labored long replies are worth.Ocassionally I may look the other way and igore some topics, but when it involves young people who need direction about their tangled future I feel obligated to make my replies longer than the troll corner. JB, stop giving the girl a tartly advice.You know all girls hate the word marriage

Lil sister, Unless and until you asses yourself consciously, all advise from outside especially the web would be deeply flawed since it is you alone who can decide what you want to do with your life. Your mind should be telling you what you want to do. There is nothing you can never attain or do if you put all your efforts to it. Your own decision will get you closer to the truth of who you are as a person. It is the choice you would make today that would be the main determinant of what your future would be. The more attention you give your choice the more energized you would be towards your goals in life. Once you find your love for any profession the rest of your life direction would be a game that you would be playing along. I also believe in the power of prayer. It is through prayer and hard work that you would find your dreams comes true. If there is no joy or ease of what you want to do with your life, you would be a miserable person-life would become a burden to you! Do not be afraid of failure as it would only make you stronger and closer to your dream. Remember Thomas Edison had many failures before he could invent the lamp. It is a great start that you are questioning yourself this early in your life. I would advise you to try to look around your family, friends, and neighbors. Do they have anything that inspires you? The experiences you accumulate within your surroundings should guide you as to what is important to you! I would not lecture you about the importance of education in this western world. I’m guessing this is something any person would tell you to do in order to participate in this current world of everyday new invention of ideas.

Let me try to yolk the overwhelming emotional verbiage that surrounds the whole place by reasoning carefully (of course with some bias).So eerie in its rhythm as it seems to the Somaliland dissenters I personally don’t see anything wrong with people taking their country that was on its back, fat and purposelessly, lifted itself up and give itself a momentum, direction and purpose. All of these personal and political instincts came together when one tries to understand the Somali politics. In all of this Somaliland dissenters needs to step back and see how Somalia is slipping into anarchy every day-more vicious, more cruel and more terrifying everyday! It holds on your psyches that Somalia can never be dismembered, which rightly “the best and the brightest” on each camp can argue over, but as reality today dictates it would be hard to reconcile the differences that has been created by the war over the lat seventeen years-the bifurcation of pro-and anti-Somaliland camp. In retrospect the political complexity can be traced to the preeminent reality-the clan division and mistrust between clans. The Somali people appear uncomfortable with the ideas of co-existing with one another. Somaliland choice of breaking away generates a sense of excitement for its people. It is a golden interlude for Somalilanders to take care of their privileged atmosphere of peace that they enjoy. As once the Sociologist Louis Wirth observed “A society is possible in the last analysis” since the individual carries in his head a picture of that society. The plight of the rest of Somalia is not something any one with sense of justice would rejoice on and should not make Somalilanders conquer the pocket of ignorance and prejudice. The perpetuation of misery in Somalia is something the rest of Somalia can do something about while the ability of Somalilanders to achieve a society that reflects faith in governance should not make the dissenters to brush it off as a clan fiefdom.

LOL.I must have been high on something! I don't know where my signature went.I would quote it here..."Work IS a Necessary Evil to be avoided...Mark Twain" PS I had a nice Ice cream cone from chick-fil A

Ibti, When I read the status change you had me spilled into all sought of rippling vibration of celebration. Finally she got married, I said to myself. Well congratulation for getting into the work force, and please read my signature below

LOl@CL... haya jemeni ni bongo flava nini? Hizo lyrics yananikumbusha basi za masaku (Ukamabani). **WAVES AT ALL THE TROLLS***

^^^^LOl@ the best pizza.I doubt if the poor girl wants to have a high salt intake when she is in A-town.The Halal pizza place has one of the worst pizza by the slice in America.I will instead advice her to go to California Pizza Kitchen on Perimeter mall area.Now about the cranked up clubs you are right on the point.She might want to go to Velvet room on friday (please avoid there saturday as they have a techno night for whiteys!).On Saturday she might want to check out Jermain Duprees's new club studio seventy two.

There is nothing new or unique about Atlanta just a sizeable southern city. I will offer you some good points through which you may secure your own proof through experimentation. I will be insensitive prick in my advice. Let me start with the positive ones. The best Somali restaurant would be Madina restaurant which is off of Memorial drive. Be warned that the server there is big mouth old guy that may embarrass you in front of your ajnabi guest. There you will find a nice Somali bariis and Pasta. IN the Same building on your right side you will find a sijui Coffee shop owned by a good friend. Here you will find a nice cup of Tanzanian tea and Coffee plus Shiisha on the side. You might occasionally on weekends find Vagabonds like me playing Cards or Board game on a corner of the coffee shop sipping my cup of tea. Try to catch the point I’m about to make here. Please avoid the Campus plaza. There you will find the most obnoxious Qabiil talking,BBC listening Somalis sitting outside. This is where you will find men with desiccated face of meanness that may make you quail. The second place to avoid is the Dunkin Donut on Memorial Drive there you will find dressed up men talking politics In a more subtle form unlike the college plaza ones.Have a nice vacation in A-town

D/P

^^^^ Istaghfurullah!

I was reading my daily New York Times Feed when I came across This article. Admission to these elite colleges is one of the best things that can happen to a high student in America. I was impressed with a young Somali high school girl that was accepted to this Ivy League this fall (She is a family through Marriage). The persistent the Somali girls demands of themselves far outshines the boys! My Careful observation of boys versus girls in America has shown that girls are more hardworking and persistent in their intention of attaining their educational goals. Procrastination has become the number one enemy of our young boys. Our boys have overlooked the element of hard work which must be present before one becomes successful. There is no other road to an Ivy league school, but hardwork.Today I feel like Saying Girl Power!!

Wave@all the trolls.They are working me to the bones of my fingers today! :mad:

Just imagine the embarrassment he might be going through with this condition. I doubt if it is something he enjoys doing it. I’m sure he is feeling ghastly when he is sneezing and dripping that ceaseless phlegm. If you approach him he might not feel good about it. You might make him restrain himself if you Try to pull away with facial expression every time he makes that noise (girls are good at this ).Just try to be diplomatic whatever you do and don't dislike someone for something beyond their control.

Cara, It was in the local evening news yesterday. These kids scared me -the thought of them coming up with such a flamboyant spite gesture for their teacher. Their unbridled plan makes me cringe how kids can be violent in this country!

I am pleased to hear that the rain has reached your side of the slope. Now I can sneak out of sight and come up with face-saving explanation when otheyashaa start asking for money to dig a borehole In Salaxley and awareh (SP?)!

Val..If she knew my online character she would let me go in heart-beat.She Who must be obeyed is a good person-the only thing she is bad at is flirting! Don't get me wrong we both enjoy ourselves together. PS Good to see you around Val.You are one of my favorite SOL girls.

Ibti...the opportunity of me hooking up with her isn't that promising.I think about it all the time.What if I lived in London would my chances be higher than it is now? I dwell on the thought that another son of a gun has more chances of eloping with her than I do-I would let my own pride and ego drip with pain.I would continue willy-nilly on my own to find a suitable mate this side of the Atlantic.

Ibti, I just got to work.I wish I was somewhere else, but unfortunately I'm at my desk with little to do for now until the work pace picks up later.As for CL barryaahaan weyigakibiirtay (Sorry that I butchered the language)

CL, Ibti, Malika and Jaceylka. Waan itthin Salamay.Subaax wanagsaan.Maanta arimuhuw sithey yihhin?

Someone give me an anti-acid for my stomach distress. This reminds me of an incident with my local hip-hop station morning show. A young Somali brat called the station bragging about how Somalis have nothing In common with the other African/African Americans. I thank God that I lived with many non-Somalis for long time or else I’ll have been part of this eccentricity and arrogance.

^^^Bisinka!

The political section is not that bad.I visit the political section when I want to entertain myself with derogatory snipping (the only places you can get delicious thrill out of people’s ardent support of their village). Sometimes I got detached, shocked, embarrassed, and times enraged by the Somali politics. Yet at heart I sympathize with the people who live in such a messy country! It would be impossible to ignore the dimension of tragedies that these poor people undergo. The veil of despair for Somalis won’t lift sooner so you might as well mind your business wherever you are!