University of Hargeisa June 2012

just read your blog and its impressive. your article about Dr. Hussein Abdi Ismacil (Diqleh), a fellow clansman of mine is complete and utter nonsense. you should have some self-preservation ibtisam and stop defaming people. i've been following this case very carefully and i'm very disappointed in your coverage.

somalis give their best to others. i guess this is good because it shows hospitality but two or three things i dont like about our people is the 1. gossiping - 2. opportunistic 3. double standards. 4. no deference.

Carafaat;837324 wrote: Inadeero, I have followed Maximus career on SOL as a reader. And the guy seemed to be angry, in a teenager way angry at the world for not understanding him. I think its a bit to soon to relive your teenage years. wait till your middle-aged and above 35 before reliving your youth. I suggest, you come with a new and more intellectual character, a teacher like character, correcting us, telling us facts, historic aware, reasoning, a more sober and factual type, Profesorr Geeljire yes, of course inaadeero. i agree with you. some have claimed you're a script but this cannot possibly be true. we've shared so many private messages now and i feel we've bonded quite well given the circumstance. i just think alpha needs a oomph, you know an ingredient or a factor that will make something better or perfect, i now know what that is lol.

^ lol@my inaadeero, you're truly are off the tolka. i've always felt its important to show unity and to care for each other in all circumstance, particularly when you are closely related like we are somaha?. i'll be going a tolka meeting on saturday (tomorrow), i wonder if JB will show up lol? you see thats an issue because you just don't know if you'll run into a SOLer these days. they're everywhere - online, in reality, in your mind and everywhere else including online. Carafaat;836477 wrote: Alpha, I am your (online) inadeero and I am telling you commiit e-suicide and come back as a elitist dandy black british rebel, "Lord Johnson". This shy, introvert, cultured, back to the roots figure of Alpha Blondy is quite sad and makes me think of Whoobi Goldberg back in 90's with the whole rasta and "I am africa" mentality. So sad. perhaps you're right inaadeero, i should reinvent myself as something else, i mean why not somaha? everyone else is here! you have ex-convicts who've been deported and benefit cheats running key govt posts. though i wouldnt mind coming back as Maximus Powers, he was Sphinx-like and vibrant and had a fragrant whiff of romance about him like a celebrity lol.

^ not to mention its place-specific. its for melancholic fools, you know. baal expend on 'For me, i get happy when i contribute to the happiness of others in a meanigful way' and can you give practical examples. coofle, lol. abtigis is a cool guy, lets just say and this has no bearing on my current character changes.

20 Things I Should Have Known at 20. 1. The world is trying to keep you ******. From bank fees to interest rates to miracle diets, people who are not educated are easier to get money from and easier to lead. Educate yourself as much as possible for wealth, independence, and happiness. 2. Do not have faith in institutions to educate you. By the time they build the curriculum, it’s likely that the system is outdated– sometimes utterly broken. You both learn and get respect from people worth getting it from by leading and doing, not by following. 3. Read as much as you can. Learn to speed read with high retention. Emerson Spartz taught me this while I was at a Summit Series event. If he reads 2-3 books a week, you can read one. 4. Connect with everyone, all the time. Be genuine about it. Learn to find something you like in each person, and then speak to that thing. 5. Don’t waste time being shy. Shyness is the belief that your emotions should be the arbitrators of your decision making process when the opposite is actually true. 6. If you feel weird about something during a relationship, that’s usually what you end up breaking up over. 7. Have as much contact as possible with older people. Personally, I met people at Podcamps. My friend Greg, at the age of 13, met his first future employer sitting next to him on a plane. The reason this is so valuable is because people your age don’t usually have the decision-making ability to help you very much. Also they know almost everything you will learn later, so ask them. 8. Find people that are cooler than you and hang out with them too. This and the corollary are both important: “don’t attempt to be average inside your group. Continuously attempt to be cooler than them (by doing cooler things, being more laid back, accepting, ambitious, etc.).” 9. You will become more conservative over time. This is just a fact. Those you surround yourself with create a kind of “bubble” that pushes you to support the status quo. For this reason, you need to do your craziest stuff NOW. Later on, you’ll become too afraid. Trust me. 10. Reduce all expenses as much as possible. I mean it. This creates a safety net that will allow you to do the crazier shit I mentioned above. 11. Instead of getting status through objects (which provide only temporary boosts), do it through experiences. In other words, a trip to Paris is a better choice than a new wardrobe. Studies show this also boosts happiness. 12. While you are living on the cheap, solve the money problem. Use the internet, because it’s like a cool little machine that helps you do your bidding. If you are currently living paycheck to paycheck, extend that to three weeks instead of two. Then, as you get better, you can think a month ahead, then three months, then six, and finally a year ahead. (The goal is to get to a point where you are thinking 5 years ahead.) 13. Learn to program. 14. Get a six-pack (or get thin, whatever your goal is) while you are young. Your hormones are in a better place to help you do this at a younger age. Don’t waste this opportunity, trust me. 15. Learn to cook. This will make everything much easier and it turns food from a chore + expensive habit into a pleasant + frugal one. I’m a big Jamie Oliver fan, but whatever you like is fine. 16. Sleep well. This and cooking will help with the six pack. If you think “I can sleep when I’m dead” or “I have too much to do to sleep,” I have news for you: you are INEFFICIENT, and sleep deprivation isn’t helping. 17. Get a reminder app for everything. Do not trust your own brain for your memory. Do not trust it for what you “feel like” you should be doing. Trust only the reminder app. I use RE.minder and Action Method. 18. Choose something huge to do, as well as allowing the waves of opportunity to help you along. If you don’t set goals, some stuff may happen, but if you do choose, lots more will. 19. Get known for one thing. Spend like 5 years doing it instead of flopping around all over the place. If you want to shift afterwards, go ahe ad. Like I said, choose something. 20. Don’t try to “fix” anyone. Instead, look for someone who isn’t broken.

marka hore lets not get excited and pollute the forum with the usual pro-xamari sentiments. xamar must be put to the litmus test based on a somali standard. based on this, its still the same hell-hole its been for last 21 yrs. compared to other somali settlements, its failed miserably. its place devoid of civilisation although its been confirmed to me that there are pockets of culture in places like xamar-jabjab and xafada hodan.the metaphor that best sums up xamar and its environ is the 'the diamond thief whose been convinced into one last heist but that always goes pear-shaped or tits-up'. its place where thievery, corruption and daily bomb-shells gone hand in hand with booming efficient telecommunications. whatever that has been achieved has been achieved by the ordinary folk of xamaris. this has nothing to do with government or efficient administration. nor can we expect any efficient administration in the foreseeable future. there's bound to be some unexpected misfortune that will befall this heart of darkness, this mass-grave of hatred and violent space. xamar is hell-hole becos its place needs to repent for its misgivings and bad deeds. the 'city' must be cleansed of the filth that it still habours. and no amount of making false claims by the rubble-rousers will do anything credible for its position. xamar has consistenly disappointed time and time again. i'm certainly not hopeful for the future nor should any indigenous 'xamari' get their hope up too becos there bound to be a problem and more bloodshed.

'the somali problem' remittance refugee camp 1991 civil strife humanitarian disease failed state somali diaspora regional administration United Nation (deeqbixiyasha?) NGOs self-determination democracy (flawed) legitmacy mandate sovereignty meddling in the internal affairs of 'somalia' external forces 'somalia' has now been without an effective central government for 21 years/since 1991 'Somaliland is Africa's best kept secret' lol - 'a relatively stable region in northern somalia' somali peninsula koonfurian post-traumatic stress 'the somali people are difficult'

'the somali problem' remittance refugee camp 1991 civil strife humanitarian disease failed state somali diaspora regional administration United Nation (deeqbixiyasha?) NGOs self-determination democracy (flawed) legitmacy mandate sovereignty meddling in the internal affairs of 'somalia' external forces 'somalia' has now been without an effective central government for 21 years/since 1991 'Somaliland is Africa's best kept secret' lol - 'a relatively stable region in northern somalia' somali peninsula koonfurian post-traumatic stress 'the somali people are difficult'

what a fantastic event indeed. would have loved to attend. best of luck LZG!

very impressive stuff. these days i like nothing better than wearing a nicely crisped ironed maacawis and a nice shirt.

aaliyah, why dont you post a pic of urself. i always had you down as a sultry little hijabi vixen. you know that type that make the hijabi 'sexi'

lol@AT&T, you know very well that somalilanders are one. if you want to be apart of 'us' lets not go into that.

*Blessed;836290 wrote: Alpha start a serious blog of your time in SL, I even liked your tastless chronicals of Burco. The end is nigh for a few of us, I thinks but you can always rebrand ... thank you inaadeero. you're right the burao chronicles were quite something weren't they somaha lol. i cant ever imagine alpha ever writing anything serious. that would make me obsolete dee.

she's not bad, you know.

Malika;836094 wrote: Alpha only tells us about his maid and how much he avoids the sun - nothing useful there lol. eedo malika, i think you're being unfair there walahi. i've always strived to do my very best to produce the best possible stories, pictures and feature length travel writing of my chronicles of somaliland and afar. i think you're being very unfair in saying that i only talk about the maid and my skin colour. where did u get this information i avoid the sun. i've gone dark by 32% and have lost my qurbo-joog looks walahi lol and i've grown my hair long and i'm really trying hard to establish myself in this 'place'. just the other day, i was snubbed by a local chick becos she thought i too was local. she went for my cousin and housemate instead whose genetic DNA has been rendered different, having spent two generations outside of the homeland, in fact he wasn't even born there and doesn't speak a word of somali. for goodness sakes, he looks like a inbred and mix race. and you've got the nerve to say i'm uniformative eh malika, eedo macan?

lol@paragon, what an egomaniac you are sxb! kulaha the state of affairs in 'somalia' are conditional to my mood when i wake up in the mornings!

Paragon;836029 wrote: Lol. Alpha blondy. We met in 2007? 2007 was when I first went back si aan u soo indha indheeyo dhulkii - adna leave to remain ayaad ii sheegaysa. I think you mean 1997 when I first came to qurboland. Either way its jolly good that you and Ibtisam are back home. I might come there Inshallaah. best of luck brother. you're one of the few ethical and conscious brothers on this forum. i'm quite certain you already have the 'paradigms of virtue' required to work out here. i get the feeling you really care for your country and i'm sure you'll do us proud. inshallah.

NG, did u know ibtisam recently opened a store in hargeisa at the top of safari hotel road towards mansoor. its sells abayos and womens accessories. she's working very good. i'll might contact her too... some opportunities to further deepen her pockets aya soo baaxay. (remember she's related to dahabshiil too).

Paragon;836031 wrote: wyre lol. Sxb the time to go home is now. We're talking about a home country that needs to be rebuilt and rehabilitated from the scratch. So shaqo horta la waayi maayo kolaad kalluun gurtaba laakiin in meesha la joogo ayaa ugu muhiimsan. Just the feeling of being in your own motherland and helping out is priceless sxb. I only wish to contribute the little I know to my people and country's brighter future Inshallaah and grow old contentedly. Thats my little dream. yes indeed, if our friend tarzan can become the mayor of Mogadishu, who know what you'll become in that hell-hole. recently, i met this guy who is one of the heads of UN agencies here in somaliland. he told me that he's been working for this agency for last 20 years? and i then said with a sarcastic tone 'so you've been there since the start of the problems in 'somalia''. he responded with this giddy look of agreement. the guy was in last 50s and had an IPAD. money money money! vulture vulture vulture

^ adams naga da dee sxb! you too coming here. i think we can all agree i was the one to set this trend off ya? then ibtisam followed, along with NORF's failed attempt and now paragon. paragon, why are you coming to the somali territories? i remember that time we meet back in 2007 you were still seeking your indefinite leave to remain.

arafat i agree inaadeer. online anonymity is now part of my new 'paradigms of virtue'. it was a mistake to meet IBZ, NORF, CL, NG, AT&T and JB. you're right inaadeer, you could say whatever you like behind a computer screen but when people reveal your true character as AT&T recently did with his hargeisa revelations and countless others have in the past - descriptions like nice, handsome and urbane to name but a few have made me look silly, you know... how can i ever be the monster and the jack and Hyde character I've projected since 2007. those days were great! i was enigmatic and sphinx-like lol. now.....i'm boring and its a losing battle. i think its time a few confessional thread went up....i have lots secrets to share lol....its time to self-destruct, i think. i need to make an enemy of MOD and the ADMIN Regime and get banned.