Nin-Yaaban;903726 wrote: Allow sanadkaan sanad wacan nooga dhig. ameen.....2012 was a brillant year. maybe twenty-thirteen will be the year for me.........LOL

dearest Nin-yaban, close and personal friend of the highest calibre, marka hore, i, too, would like to take this opportunity to thank you for organising this year's ceremony. taa labaad, i put in a strong campaign and in the end it wasn't enough to catapult me to the success i'd hoped. there is also next year inshallah....nonetheless, its was/an honour to have participated in this year's well organised ceremony. what's more, i cannot express in mere words what it means to me to have been included in the short-list for the final round. for the 26 SOLers who voted for me....i'm humbled by your support, efforts and dedications to TEAM ALPHA. i'll forever be grateful to you for helping me finish in 3rd places. thank you, thank you very much. i'm very happy to come 3rd behind Abtigis and this year's SOLer of the year - Mooge. Congratulations Mooge, you won unanimously and without question. i would like to take this opportunity to congratulate you and give you my deepest-felt hambalyo's for becoming president-elect of SOL... congratulations! all hail the Nomad of the Year for 2012..... Mooge!

one day i hope to establish a small hedonist retreat-enclave-town called las naasnuug........as a former town planner in the UK....i would ensure the residents of my town are given all the basic needs and have the highest quality of life.

LOL@XX, i would've thought xassan cisse led the arabs to cross the sinai into newer territory like the calamaadaha? they scored rather badly in that area...apparently.

Apophis;903646 wrote: You can tell this trainer was an old war dog in the heyday of the SNA. Very good. excellent picture. really captures the moment.....

question; i understand there is an area called sinai in xamar region. i've heard about this place in numerous banadiri songs. there is also an area in hargeisa called sinai in the arab side of town.......can anyone explain how this name came to be?

nuune;903688 wrote: Hargeisa Yar in jubbada hoose actually nuune, there is an area in hargeisa called jigjiga yar. the story goes it was settled (involuntarily) by a group of indigenous jigjigarians as per a demographic population exchange policy of the late Somali dictator siyaad barre. they left the area after the war years and that's how it acquired the name jigjiga.

Jacaylbaro;903561 wrote: A good friend surprised me with a bright new Canon digital camera, 16 mega pixels. ........ That means more & more photos around the continent Mashallah.

HARGEISA DEC 2012

ABDAAL TOWN 200 Animal hide/skin factory in Abdaal, Saxil Region. somaliland-chinese ownership. this factory is an environmental disaster and its been proven that the chinese operators are polluting the ceel in abaal and many people died and have been sick as result. its a worrying problem.

Berbera DEC 2012

NEW YEAR'S EVE is looking bleak. i think i'll have to do the countdown on my own. 2011 was awesome. 2010 even better.

Taleexi;903337 wrote: Tell that to the Ha-rtis in the East and you don't speak for all these people! naga daa the victim mentality sxb!

there is something of the night about these stories.....

hi theirry, i know a few NGOs who publish and give free somali books esp children stories little cigaal shidaal and dhagdheer etc. i can send you a bundle of these via DHL (you'll have cover the costs) or the next person coming/leaving hargeisa.

its not looking here on the ground.....we'll see what tomorrow brings...baal.