really interesting Q & A session with President Hassan Sheikh of Somalia. what are you thought?

the Pope's resigned for undisclosed reasons, seems legit. LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL

Alpha: oh hello there Alpha! how are ya? Alpha: hey Alpha, i'm doing good. how are things at your end? Alpha:i'm doing excellent, thanks. things are very good. i see you're also online...... Alpha: yeah, i thought the same thing when i saw you come online. but why so late today? did you go to another social event? Alpha: LOOOL,not really. i was just busy and stuff. why you so late too? Alpha: i was busy too. i was sorting some stuff out. Alpha: oh right! okay. anything important? i know you're an important person, or that's the impression, i get from you..... Alpha: LOOOOOOOOOOL! me busy? me important? naga daa dee sxb. Alpha: whatever! Alpha: what about you? you're not doing too bad yourself, according to what i've heard, ma ruunba dee? Alpha: me doing good? me a someone? LOOOOOOOL! naga daa dee sxb.

i'm out of here. for goodness sakes its bloody empty on SOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! so much for quality assurance ma istidhi?, that the ADMIN and MODs continue to limit the numbers for reason unbeknownst to Alpha. just release and grant safe passage to my four scripts and i'll make the site busier than a Dutch brothel LOOOOOOOOOOOL. this insidious western mindset prevalent in SOLers is pathetic. do you think the world is subject to your will? do you think those of us in the global south whose locations is 3+ GMT are impressed by your ways? do you think we're impressed by your silly weekends? oh NO, we're NOT at all. NOT impressed at all. btw its 02.15 here. LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL. Al.

the days of the qurbo-joog are long DEAD. it reached its zenith around 2009, 2010, 2011 and maybe 2012 but it's more or less dead these days. as a so-called bloody qurbo-joog in the field, its not all its cracked up to be, here. gone are the days of the qurbo-joog for me. qurbo-joog are those who come and leave within a short period of time. its often sentimentalised and its all hype. promoting it on TV doesn't make it any more interesting than what the experience is actually like, here on the ground. what of those who've risked life and limb to be here in this post-conflict environment? and for relatively long periods of time too, like me.....? well, i'm ''post-diaspora''/''qurbo-joog dhaaf'' for those of you complementing the idea of coming here....my advise is fairly straight forward and simple: come prepared and be ready to sacrifice your sanity and compassionate nature. its hell-on-earth here. hell on earth.

Reeyo;917217 wrote: Someone needs to teach me how to post vids and pics. Cold Specks Winter Solstice: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9f-OyCktpxs 1. copy the URL from youtube. = http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9f-OyCktpxs 2. use this template. video=youtube;]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v='>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=[/video but ensure there are two brackets at either end of the video [ and ] but only before and after the v of video. i've taken them out for the purpose of this tutorial...... 3. paste the numbers and letters after the v= only this into the template in the following places = video=youtube; HERE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HERE[/video.......again ensure you enclose with the two brackets at either end of the video [ and ] but only before and after the video. so = and . 4. = 5. viola.

oba hiloowlow;917255 wrote: another photo-shopped picture of some farax prancing around this 'lido'.

no energy to even troll tonight. i'm a little exhausted too.

QansaxMeygaag;917229 wrote: AB where is this? I could combine it with the Hargeisa International Book Festival in June/July.... its been almost 2 years since i attended an event like this. i really wouldnt know walahi. i'm sorry. but having watched the vid, its a classic reer-hargeisa ype event with some familiar faces among the crowd.

Haatu;917234 wrote: On a much brighter note, Apophis and Oba should come back. This place is somewhat boring without them. If you two are reading this, Oba you really are a brain-dead sarkhaan but that doesn't mean you should throw a hissy fit just because you can't take insults like a man (you acted like a hysterical women when you decided to leave). And you Apophis, you're filthy, vile snake whose treachery knows no bounds. That's why you should return. Your dark and despicable presence balances the Alpha's surreal maddness prevailing stale mood here. on less pressing issues, Apo and Oba are always welcome here. this is their thread and i've made several attempts to bring them back both. just yesterday, during our war of words in the valentines thread....things got heated and ADMIN and the MODs were forced to delete several comments. i don't want to fight with these individuals. i expressly want peace but ultimately its their decision.

Haatu;917234 wrote: Alpha, (this is assuming your friend is actually leaving) you must feel so lonely. As if you are being deserted by your peers day by day, being left alone to wander this desolate hellhole alone. You must feel exasperated and more hopeless by every passing day, watching your youth slip between your fingers as you succumb to old age and a life of mediocrity. How sad. haatu, you're an excellent judge of character, i must say. these days, i think i'm suffering from a mental blockage and its as deja vu as each day follows the next. i'm on a treadmill running but to no avail, to no purpose, to no end and i still continue on running LOL! i'm surrounded by zombies despite my best efforts at self-imposed solitude. my friend offers the only comfort of relieve and he's become my little outlet of hope, in...... what is, otherwise, a boring mundane pathetic life. LOOOOOOOOOOOOL. i'll miss him dearly but maybe its blessing in disguise and perhaps signal a change of sorts for Alpha. maybe its time i stopped living in the past, moved on and embraced what's out there again...... LOL:D i've divided Alpha's Somaliland Adventure into 7 different republics (periods). i met my friend during my 3rd republic. the 3rd republic was a period of immense change and major transformations. i'm currently in the 7th republic, which has been marked by a period of stagnation and regularity. during the 4th republic, the aim was 'consistence'. in the 5th republic i was all about my family who visited. the 6th republic was a period characterised by instability and social strive. the first republic was arrival and adaptation. the 2nd republic will be best remembered for indulgence coupled with an expanding sphere of influence. LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL. be that as it may, my friend was very useful during the 4th and 6th republics. i grew too fast and become reckless, sadly falling from grace. it was these times, these times of turmoil and trouble, that my friend was instrumental in providing the support i needed in my attempts for one last heist . it never happened and i was regrettably forced to abandoned my long awaited return to the big time. my friend and I often speaking of 'hargeisa-di hore', the hargeisa of old, where we run sh!t. these are the memories, memories of a by-gone era and the memories of yesteryears that solidified our strong bond until now..... and now, unfortunately, i'll have to rely on these memories for inspiration. LOOOOOOOOOOOOL

QansaxMeygaag;917231 wrote: By the way I doubt Haatu will crack this code but I have *JA* *SM* *HJ* blood somewhere... LOL@Qansax, what this obsession you and haatu have with each others clans. we cares? you needn't reveal your codes man.

Alpha Blondy;917121 wrote: my best friend is leaving tomorrow for Dubai. i really don't know when i'll see him again. it's tragic walahi that he's leaving but we were talking the other day and i asked if he could leave some of his items behind for me. so far i've managed to get first dips on a diesel watch, a Louis Vuitton bag and several other items. i'll see him off tomorrow morning. how will life change for Alpha? i don't know. one things for sure, it won't be the same again. LOOL so, i just came back from a small get-together we organised for my friend as he makes his return back to the qurbaha. it was well attended and i had a good time. he will now leave tomorrow (monday) as there was some confusion about the ticket to Dubai. LOOOOOOOL this is a guy i've got the most profound respect for. during my somaliland adventure, it wasn't always plain-sailing despite my best efforts to appear unperturbed. but my friend was always there for me. he helped when times were difficult and was always supportive of me. sometimes, its important, we recognise the efforts of those who offer support not merely because its the right thing to do but also because its incumbent, a duty if you like, upon all of us to ensure we help each other. i was telling this guy about SOL once and its weird individual characters and he's very eager to join. LOOOOOOOOOOOOL

Nuune, if you give me 30mins of your day on any thread and we speak exclusively in af-somaali, i would be able to express my thought with the clarity i've demonstrated today. LOOOOL. thank you. give me some feedback and when you read my somaali aloud and phonetically, is there an accent present?. for instance, reer xamar people hardly use 'bilow malaha' expression. LOOOOL thanks again. i will be fluent by the end of 2013, i swear it. and i will have my vengeance on all those who thought i was a pathetic dhaqan celis.

an excellent day indeed. lots more work to do for Alpha. Alfoow, waan ku salamayaa! salaan ka dib, waxaan ku rajaynaya huurdo fiican sxb ee habeen waanagsaan, ya? LOOOOOOOOOOOOOL!

yes! of course, i know i can always count on your advice, since you're a true ''friend'' LOL. laakin, waxaan ku weeydiiye, saxib, maaxad uu soo dhex gasha waxyaabo aan ku khuseyn. ruuntii waan iis weydiyo, waxaan iis idhi, bilow malaha ka xanaaqa ee ka xishood saxibka. LOOL

^ adiguna naga daa dee sxb. what are you a MOD these days? you seem to keep recall all my posts with precision. :

islaantaan xaluuska weyne dadka ka fadhiisiyaa reer khaatumoow. its been some 30 years since the hey days of the 'landcruiser', ma istidhi?

Narniah;917160 wrote: OdaySomali welcome back. How u been bro? Ur advice is always appreciated. so is it true then......did you find love?

QansaxMeygaag;917150 wrote: Ok mum's the word about your Uni days, wont ask another question... Works crazy, Cheshire Cat wants me to do half his job, showed me some "goals" for the year he'd like me to tackle and boy was that list long...said I'd be more incentivized if he gave a careful thought to my benefits as well, the whole package, not just the additional work he's touting like a prostitute... Bro I don't keep bad friends. What I do is keep an open mind, I try my best, walahi, not to judge people and to be tolerant so people, all sorts, are attracted to me like bees to honey. After a while is when some start saying, how come you don't do this and that and it was in that regard that I was asking "am I normal"... Qansax, i suspect these 'friends' of yours are your work colleagues somaha?. their 'normal' acts of going for a drink after work, shouldn't make you question your values. don't be afraid to say NO and don't ever feel compelled to go and just sit there, if you don't want to.......i would probably be in a similar dilemma, had i stayed in the UK, so i understand. i'm not judging you and empathise with you. is the cheshire cat, your direct line manager? in that case, who does he report to? there are many who use this approach of delegating tasks, where appropriate, but do want you can. i suppose you're in a difficult situation of being doomed if do his job while he relaxes and doomed if you don't, because this could set you back a few more years, but don't despair as i'm sure there's light at the end of the tunnel. remember laakin, as an ethnic minority, you'll always face these sorts of obstacles but hang on in there. Al.

Haatu;917137 wrote: lol I may not be a posh Ealing Common boy that gets £££ from his parents but I most certainly do have some money to do some of the things I want. I work mate, I don't steal the ceer money that's been put aside for the ayuuto like you used to :D A book worm? I know a couple of guys like that. They say that as soon as uni starts they're gonna go crazy. Such sados. I always had a feeling you were one. So what did you do in your glorious uni days whilst doing your foundation year for three years consecutively (due to your poor A levels and constantly failing)? LOOOL@Haatu, kulaaha ''posh earling commons boy''. saxib, i was a North Londoner and part of the infamous tottenham-man-dems crew (TMDs). it was around the same time that grime music hit the scene in the early 2000s. i knew a few members of Roll Deep walahi. i was a ''killa on the mic'' and engaged in countless ''spitting battles'' with ''bare mans''. LOL. i gave myself the aptly and indeed appropriately sounding name of killa T. Killa T was a ''merkin'' legend. i still think some of TMDs material is still on youtube. sporting AIR MAX 90s in a variety of colours, laces done in my usual style and tracksuits, i was well known in the underground grime scene. i was also devoutly religious and attended my local mosque Al-Hijra before moving on to the exclusively reer Somaliland Selby Centre madaraasa. this was where i met my first girlfriend - Rahma. she was really hot and it took ages for us to be ''officially'' dating. she was a year younger than me but was fully developed like a ripe pomegranate fruit but i didn't get ''things'' from her. we dated for only one month exactly. i saw her several years later, once, and she was ruined by the suuq..... LOOOOOOOOOOL kulaaha ''ceer'' money LOOOOOL. brovs, i was receiving EMA (Educational Maintences Allowance). i'm not sure if you guys still receive that....laakin, its highly unlikely, i reckon. new labour was awesome walahi. the Conservative-Libdems coalition has ruined the UK. i read a lot in those days and modeled my life on Malcolm X. these anti-western sentiments are nothing NEW, you know . i also worked out at the gym and led what was probably, my most productive lifestyle ever, walahi......this was before uni, mind you..... :D:D:D:D haatu, do you watch SKINS? the over-sexualised tv series, which is probably the best depiction, of modern teens and their shenanigans, in the UK today? LOOOOOOOOOL!

QansaxMeygaag;917135 wrote: Tell us about your interesting Uni days? What did you do? Looks like a complete 180 degrees turnaround from nerd to celeb... i got sucked in and i'd rather NOT talk about it. if that's alright with you? how are you? what's happening in your life these days. i noted from your other thread you keep some bad friends. there is a hadith that says...''you are what your friends are...''. read it. hows work? and your dealings with the cheshire cat?

QansaxMeygaag;917133 wrote: Dude there is 600,000 Somali refugees in Kenya, mainly in Dadaab, not 55,246, TEN TIMES THAT... i know. but these are the only stats available. if you look at the site, you'll see for somalia, that only out-migration is listed but NOT inward immigration. LOOL. there are plenty of immigrates in the Somali-peninsula. you can't imagine how many kenyans, ethiopians and djiboutians are here, even if they're somali. this should be reflected in the figures.

Haatu;917123 wrote: Anyways, I've spent a whole day just sitting at home doing nothing. I only left the house once to buy something. What kind of a Saturday is this? I was supposed to go cinema with friends and catch up (I stopped socialising for the exam period) but I cancelled. Someone raided my wardrobe and because of that I have to go shopping, so no money to socialise (goodbye Starbucks ). Isn't this a sad situation? On the bright side, I get to go shopping! soon... I was thinking of buying red converses a bit like these: I don't know why but I'm a bit tired of Vans. My friend was advising me to buy DCs (skate shoes) but I think they're ugly. Now that shoes are outta the way, we turn to jumpers/hoodies. We're soon entering (at least I hope) that time of the year where it's a tad too hot (and damn right unfashionable) to continue wearing your winter coat. This means thick jumpers/hoodies are required as well as those thin water-proof jackets (like some of those SuperDry Jpn jackets that were the rage last year). The problem here I that my wardrobe is severely lacking in both regards and I most certainly won't be wearing my winter coat. So, I guess I'll have to check out TKMax and Blue Inc in the next couple of days. We now enter the realm of life below the belt (trousers - speaking of belts I need to get some new ones as well). I'm getting a bit tired of Chinos but everywhere I look it seems these slim trousers are the only ones on the market! However, it was Mufti Day (non-school uniform day) a couple of weeks ago at school and a friend of mine had these really nice trousers that weren't chinos (but they were still a bit tight but not disgustingly figure-hugging) and were nice and simple. But the dirty b@stard won't tell where he got them! I guess I'll have to spend a whole weekend between Westfield's and Oxford Street just to find them. So much to do and such little time. And oh yeah, I hate shopping but at least I can make a girl happy and finally accept a request to "go out". At least then there's someone there to tell me whether the clothes I buy look nice (You see whenever I ever go shopping I buy clothes that are qaabdaran according to my mum and plain ugly in my view after coming home and having a proper look lol ) LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL@Haatu-oow, saxib your life is not short of fun, ma istidhi? there i was thinking you're just a regular 18 year old but you're NOT! are you? you're a fashion-conscious consumerist teenager. the type who epitomises the London riots of 2011, the feral type without community values, the type obsessed with materialist objects whose empty pockets fail to kick-start the economic revival predicated by analyst in these austerity and debt-ridden times. your long essay LOL and its description really reeks of teenage tantrums and a life severely starved of disposable cash to spend on new shoes. but, nonetheless, due to environmental factors are able to squeeze the last remaining drops of value from every single pound so as to best maximise a basic social life, if that. just as you are now in 2013, i was doing my A2's in 2003 and life in those days offered some semblance of hope. it was very different from the hard prospects that face your generation now. in those early days of new labour, Alpha's life was very different from yours. i wasn't fashion obsessed nor had much of a social life, to be quite frank. i was serious student, engrossed by my A Levels (Geography, Politics, Economics and GS) at the reputed Woodhouse College, no doubt. i was very luckily to be accepted at this prestigious college and i didn't disappoint in achieving the grades i'd set out for. LOOOOL.....NOT! it'll be approaching 10 years, by the time you complete your A2's, to the day i had completed sixth form college. in those A2 days, Al looked forward to uni and knew very much of the what lied ahead. a new life beckoned at University and i didnt waste time in throwing myself at its deep end LOOOL. this was where i grew, as i'm sure you'll come to grow too. in uni, everything changed, the old glad-rags and the bookworm rims were out of the window. instead came in the newer refined Al, who, as though, he'd gone through Matthew Kelly's Star's In Their Eyes changing room, metamorphed into an A-list celebrity. amazing times and i've got the pictures to prove it too....:p LOOOOOOOOOOOL

Haatu;917119 wrote: lol I can't believe ^This is the person Apo and Oba got mad at. You're clearly deranged and your hinges have long ago loosened I am 18 but I'll leave the other part to you you're not the first to call me crazy. that's merely your interpretation of events, in so far, as my mental well-being, is concerned. laakin, the truth of the matter remains, i'm perfectly normal and can lift my own body weight four times. . LOOOOOOOOOL. 18 kulaha! ok. adeer, naga daa hadaba dee. i feel a little silly talking to a spotty-teenager. go and do what regular 18 years do, yeah?