Haatu;917144 wrote: This was a crime carried out by the kenyans. Whether or not their Somali puppets knew about it is irrelevant. As for justice, give me a break. These people can't even get a km of road built and you think they're capable of getting justice. Excuse me? The fact that the MOST powerful Somalis in the Moi government were aware of this most HEINOUS of crimes is Irrelevant? Which planet do you line in Haatu. What a heartless thing to say? wtf man? wt effing f? And now you are blaming the victims of state atrocities for not getting a km of a road built and by extension being unable to get justice? like wtf x1,000,000. Did you say you were 18? Small wonder, small wonder... Does you defensivenes on the part of the Cagdheer high command to do with the fact that the victims were Degodia and not Cagdheer?

Alpha Blondy;917138 wrote: 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? 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"...

Aaliyyah;916813 wrote: It seems you have chosen kuwa nolosha ka dhacey ee khaadka ruuga. At the end you are what your friends are. Think wisely Mr. Khaadka ruuga kulahaa; stop the af lagaado. I said straight up I DONT munch like a cow...

*Ibtisam;916919 wrote: You are somewhat normal (like everyone else) but seem needy or approval seeker. Needy people are extremely annoying, taxing and suck all the energy out of their friends with their neediness. They will get you in the end and you will join them- simple because of your need to be accepted. IF you are still under 19 years of age- then the above need not apply YET. I think you are watching too much Oprah and Dr Phil Ibtisam...Am not the ex-Duchess of York....

Abu-Salman;916925 wrote: Underdog nailed it with not caring about others opinion; how do you get along with others so different though? If a friendship is not providing you with some model, wisdom or insight and instead divert you away to lesser things, is this relation even worth it? Was thinking lately about overall assesment and my own relations, I'm so glad to have maturated beyond mere approval seeking or following the herd...with only few close friends if at all beyond family but plenty of acquaintance and potential great friends. Social chit chat and hanging taxes me beyond few ones and is extremely boring if I'm not learning new things, with someone ecclectic/smarter or if unable to help or advise; however, I do make efforts to connect with and learn a lot of wisdom from the older and wadaad ones; they are also the most down-to-earth with suggestions for dilemmas (fun get you only so far). Simple answer is that I am extremely tolerant; I let people be...so I attract all sorts of characters as "friends"; perhaps I should just re-categorize them into real friends, fair-weather friends and acquaintances...

*Ibtisam;916919 wrote: You are somewhat normal (like everyone else) but seem needy or approval seeker. Needy people are extremely annoying, taxing and suck all the energy out of their friends with their neediness. They will get you in the end and you will join them- simple because of your need to be accepted. IF you are still under 19 years of age- then the above need not apply YET. Actually am not needy...lolest! Just "reporting" as factually as I can...

Alpha Blondy;916973 wrote: Nuune, money and women are the corrupters of men. these distractions are not worthy of mention and they are for weak men. i will marry ONLY one egotistical and equally as dictatorial woman. i will place a small powerful chip next to her heart with the view of killing her, if ever she's disloyal. she'll be my closest confidante. she'll raise excellent children. i will NEVER have an affair because that represents moral weakness of the worst kind. my real interest lies in Power and exercising this Power absolutely and without limitations. Power finds those it seeks and that's NOT everyone. it should NEVER be used for the purposes of appearing powerful and vain-glorious but for the betterment of people. i will use this power, this heavy burden by producing tangible results. those who stand in the way of my objectives will be exiled, tortured (personally supervised) and denied a place in the annals of history. i will keep an inner circle of enforcers, composed of ex-orphans, who have pledged absolute loyalty to me and who owe me their lives. you don't have a plan. Add to your reading list "No Longer at Ease" again by Chinua Achebe and Kwei Armah's "The Beautiful Ones are Not Yet Born"...

Alpha Blondy;916968 wrote: Nuune, i absolutely love to be admired at all times. i get an incredible sensation from being showered with praise. its a sordid little habit that i should seek medical attention for, but i'm finding myself more attracted to the limelight. i've read up to 40 biographies of some of the greatest tyrants and dictators in the history of man. i want to become a dictator inshallah. already i posses many of the traits of being a dictator. i want to one day rule over all somalis and make them attest their loyalty. i also want to reform our culture because i know exactly what's needed. i'm a man of people but people must be ruled over with an iron fist. they yearn for a decisive, visionary and principled leader. i offer those qualities and many more as i'm sure you'll agree. Chinua Achebe - that brilliant man of letters -once wrote a brilliant book by the title "A Man of the People". You might want to read that first AB...

^ it is just a lull, a precautionary one on the part of the traders; they will come back after the elections, maybe not all of them but some. There are other Kenyans fleeing other parts of Kenya as well. I know some Kikuyus who have sold their properties in Eldoret for instance for fear of a repeat of the post-election violence of 2007/08... Even many Kenyan Somalis have made ahabit of heading to Garissa, Wajir and Mandera for the same reasons. It is all about the March 4th elections, everybody wants to see how things will pan out...

Haatu;917083 wrote: Ilaahey ha u naxariisto. It was a tragic incident. Carafaat, get out of here with your nonsense. The Cagdheer high command, Gen Mohamed Mohamed was Chief of the Army, his brother Hussein Mohamed was a FULL GOVERNMENT minister, and Yusuf Haaji was an EXTREMELY POWERFUL Provincial Commissioner and at the very least they were aware of what was going on... I can't believe 30 yrs later there is no justice for the victims of Wagalla Massacre. A crying shame, a real crying shame.

Alpha Blondy;917131 wrote: LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL@Haatu-oow, 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 Tell us about your interesting Uni days? What did you do? Looks like a complete 180 degrees turnaround from nerd to celeb...

Alpha Blondy;916954 wrote: SOMALIA migration flows across the world Population: 9,767,889 Emigrants: 813,273 Migrant destinations ETHIOPIA 161,179 UNITED KINGDOM 110,326 USA 109,618 YEMEN 79,466 DJIBOUTI 57,246 KENYA 55,246 EGYPT 36,258 SAUDI ARABIA 27,252 CANADA 22,718 SWEDEN 17,948 http://peoplemov.in/?fb_source=ticker&fb_action_ids=10152535211465594&fb_action_types=og.likes#f_SO ----------- interesting site. check it out if you have time. Dude there is 600,000 Somali refugees in Kenya, mainly in Dadaab, not 55,246, TEN TIMES THAT...

Salahudin;916768 wrote: Go for it man...and mixed with weed while u r at it... On ma first try? Wont I go crazy?

Can someone give me a description of the normal Faarax? I mean I've not even so much as stuck a shisha pipe in me mouth - maybe I should try it out tonite!

Haatu;916728 wrote: your caadi. Isn't Caadi the new weird? People do some crazy shid no?

Aaliyyah;916747 wrote: You seem to be part of the wrong crowd. Find good company, there are many men who dnt eat khat or smoke. Wah! This other lot have big beards, trawl the neighborhood in evangelical missions like the Jehovah's Witnesses and talk of death a LOT. Am caught between a rock and a hard place....I seem to have opted for a middle existence without thinking consciously about it...

Waranle_Warrior;916737 wrote: I don't think you are normal, not to me at least. You are complaining about what your friends say, WTF? kkk. Waryaa waranka ha iladhicin! I am not normal because I complain about my friends and what they say? Isn't that what friends do like 24/7?

Apophis;916714 wrote: Your friends obviously don't want to hurt your feelings so that's why they've told you this white lie i.e "you're not normal", when what they're,clearly, trying to tell you is: you're boring. Of course you can be boring as hell until you're 70, ticking all the right boxes, turning up on time for everything, being a slave to societal norms etc, but that, in my view, isn't what being a man is about. Aha that's it, they are just speaking in code and trying to say "you are boring, spice things up a bit, have a one-night stand or two, like us, go dance to some trance music and shid". What's being a man about since you bring up the subject?

Alpha Blondy;916753 wrote: pride? allegiance? aniga ii mood ciyaal caano boodhaha aad adigu tahay Haatuoow. no offensive but your convictions are loose and at best........pathetic you know NOT what i've endured to make SL the reality it is maanta..... Alpha will forever be true to the cause. Somaliland is the greatest thing to me in the world. i'd rather die than leave the cause and will die like those before me for its existence forever more...and leave for what? fame? pride? individual success? we are inextricably linked for eternity. LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL. You are beginning to spook me with your talk of SL and fanaticism and wanting to die for the cause....

I forgot my other balwad, short stories..... Remember this one? ***** Should I continue this short story... She stood there, in all her glory. Full sensuous lips, full figure, tall, dark, hair reaching up to the small of her back, teeth as white as fresh milk against dark gums; the quintessential picture of a true African Queen. Except for one small detail; she was a lady of the night. She blinked twice and sauntered into the dark alleyway where the red tail lights of a waiting car blinked. Perhaps a client? I was soon startled out of my mind's wanderings by the hooting from the next car. I had stopped in traffic to stare at her as I waited for the lights to change, but completely forgot. Why are you staring at the Cabiid, my companion asked, Cabiid being the derogatory word Somalis use to refer to other Africans with "coarser hair". Out of a strong sense of racial pride, most Somalis regard themselves as a race unto their own; neither black African, nor Arab, no Caucasian. We went into the usual routine of me standing up for the Cabiid and of her into her righteous indignation that I should countenance the fact that we were all African, whichever way you sliced it. I went into the usual anecdote of how in the Qurbaha nobody cared for my Somaliness; the white woman across the street always saw me as a black man, out of instinct, the white woman would invariably clutch her bag tighter on my appearance. For some reason, this particular anecdote seemed to have a more reassuring effect on her today than usual. I wondered why... ****** http://www.somaliaonline.com/community/showthread.php/69589-Should-I-continue-this-short-story...?highlight=short+story

oba hiloowlow;916688 wrote: sow mahaa Yeah, the house reminds me of our family house and many others like it...

Alpha Blondy;916687 wrote: +100 you're normal. Then why do they make fun of me? They say "oi, here comes the Bishop"!

Somali towns are so similar, it could be anywhere in the shanta soomaali...

I don't smoke. I don't drink alcohol. I don't eat Khat. I don't waste time. I am intense and focused... Even in the loo... My friends think am weird. They think "every normal man should have a balwad". The only "balwad" I can think of is my love for music... and an occasional roving eye, a soft spot for beautiful women... sometimes gushingly so, I can easily tell a beautiful woman, "Oh my; you ARE gorgeous" and look at her all day like a silly puppy...

OdaySomali;892443 wrote: Ever come across vicious evil yet pious muslims with foul characters. Walahi it makes me wonder sometimes, the balance between forgiveness to and jannah for pious muslims who are yet all that a bad person embodies. Thats normal. Most of use struggle with good and bad. Some times the good wins, some times the bad wins....You keep struggling till that time when the good wins over the evil...you become a muumin...