aano meel iska maraya ayaa gabadh soomaali ah iyo mid cadaan ah iga hor yimaadeen - markey ila sinaayeen aya tii cadaan ka ahayd igu tidhi: Waryaa! - markasaan waxaan ku idhi: "Yes Naaya?", tii soomaaliga ahayd baa soo booday - oo tii cadaan ka ahayd ku tidhi "OMG - he called you bij". Lost in translation huh? - i think not. but naaya is used as term of scolding where as waryaa is from the wadnaha p.s. why you ask - ma lagugu dharbaaxay?

Originally posted by Cawaale: ^Maaaddeey = Ma deeye/Ma ka fuque..sidaas miyaa macalin SS? A+ student hopefully m-deey kan take kaftan - haddii kale kaf buu iska siin.

sad thing is - i have heard few cases where somalis have asked for translated work and when given - gave it back - decrying that this is not somali. yet we we proclaim to the world that we are people of one language, religion etc.

Tukada inta aan laydin ku tukan - or in this case - tukada si la idinku tukado.

Originally posted by Ferguson: Maandhow Maddeey muran badanaa ,,,,,, ma wixii lagu sheegi jiraybaa run noqday .... maaddey waa muran miiran!

Originally posted by Abtigiis & Tusbax: One can speak ill of Arabs (as indeed we do as any other community) - Cudud ma leh col kula weerar gala, ciidan iyo xooge - Inkastey cid kuu soo diraan, waa cidloo kale - Caloosha iyo madaxay sidii, dumar cantuugaane - Maandhoow cayaayirka iga daa, Carabi waa naage Sayid Maxamed Cabdulla Xasan. I wonder - if the Palestinians know of this poem?

doqon nebi muse (cs) baa habaaray - weligiin ma maqasheen?

Originally posted by *Ibtisam: ^^Catch a train from India??? :eek: I really don't think they should let you teach kids. is the kids that tell me this things - not the other way round - how do you think all these young afghans arrive here - by plane - think again. Just in case - i am not advising you do that - it is night mare - upside is you can write novels - that is if you survive the journey. epic adventure - insha'Allah i will do it one day - perhaps when is established that links qardho to london.

Timetable & costs... The itinerary shown here assumes you're travelling eastbound, but it would work exactly the same way westbound: Days 1-4: London-Istanbul: Travel from London to Istanbul (3 nights) by train. There are daily departures via a choice of routes, the best being London-Paris-Munich-Vienna-Budapest-Bucharest-Istanbul. The whole journey (which involves at least 6 separate trains) can be booked via several UK European rail ticketing agencies in the UK, and we're talking a minimum of £270 one-way, £450 return. See the London to Turkey page for times, fares, & how to buy tickets. Days 5-8: Istanbul-Tehran: Take an evening ferry across the Bosphorus to Haydarpasa station on the Asian side and travel from Istanbul to Tehran in Iran on the comfortable weekly 'Trans-Asia Express' (3 days), see the London to Iran page. This train departs every Wednesday, so your timetable will need to be built around this. We're talking £40 each way including sleeper, plus maybe £15 booking fee. Day 9: Tehran-Kerman: Travel from Tehran to Kerman in southeast Iran by daily overnight train leaving Tehran at 16:45 and arriving at Kerman at 05:50 next morning. The train has comfortable air-conditioned sleepers (4-berth compartments). There's also an earlier train if this train is full. Times and fares can be confirmed at www.rajatrains.com. Fares are very cheap, less than £10, though an agency may charge more. Day 10: Kerman-Bam: The railway was extended a further 225km to Bam in 2004, so change trains at Kerman onto the 08:30 connecting train to Bam, arriving 11:30. The journey takes you through spectacular desert. The fare is only a few pounds. Day 10: Bam-Zahedan: This section of line has been under construction for some time, but was reported as physically complete in May 2009. A train service reportedly started running over it in June 2009, but it's not yet clear what form this train service takes - possibly a direct train from Tehran to Zahedan, maybe weekly, maybe daily, maybe several times per week, who knows. Details have yet to be released. Latest report August 2009: No passenger train service has yet started between Bam & Zahedan. Alternatively, there are buses from Kerman or Bam to Zahedan . A bus reportedly leaves Kerman daily at 20:00, calls at Bam a few hours later and arrives Zahedan at 04:00 next morning. The fare is just a few pounds. Day 11+: Zahedan-Quetta: From Zahedan, a mixed passenger and goods train leaves on the 3rd & 17th of every month at 08:30, arriving in Quetta (in Pakistan) at 15:20 the next day (see report below). This train consists of several very basic passenger seats cars attached to a freight train, with no sleeping berths or restaurant. The fare is about Rial 30.000 (£2 or $3). The more frequent Taftan Express on this route, which had sleepers, was withdrawn due to security problems a few years ago. Bring plenty of food and above all, lots of drinking water, as it gets very hot in the desert and there's nothing available on board. As an alternative, there are also regular overnight buses on this route, but the train will show you great desert scenery in daylight - treat it as an adventure. Expect an arrival in Quetta 3-6 hours late. Alternatively, there are share taxis available from Zahedan to the Pakistani frontier, then more taxis from there to Quetta, and this option can be a good bet - see the Travellers' reports section below. Please check locally that the twice-monthly train is running, as there have been reports that even the twice-monthly train has been temporarily suspended because of bombing. If it isn't running, buses may be available as an alternative. If you have more information that might help other travellers, please contact me. Day 13+: Quetta-Lahore: From Quetta, the 'Quetta Express' runs daily trains with comfortable air-conditioned sleepers to Lahore, taking 24 hours, see the Pakistan page for times and fares. Expect this to cost less than £20. Day 15+: Lahore-Amritsar: From Lahore there is a twice weekly train, the 'Samjhota Express', taking 7 hours (see the Pakistan page eastbound, see above westbound) or daily taxis/buses to Amritsar in India, 46km away. The time taken is down to the border formalities, not the distance! Spend the night in Amritsar, an perhaps visit the Golden Temple. Day 16+: Amritsar-Delhi: There are regular daily trains from Amritsar to Delhi, see above for information on Indian train travel. Onwards to Dhaka in Bangladesh: Take the prestigious overnight 'Rajdhani Express' from Delhi to Calcutta, and the new 'Maitree Express' train (currently running Saturdays & Sundays only, an all-day journey) or daily buses from Calcutta to Dhaka in Bangladesh. Onwards to Kathmandu in Nepal: Take a train from Delhi to Gorakhpur then a bus, see the Nepal page for more info. Onwards to Burma, Thailand, China: Unfortunately, there are no easy overland routes from India or Bangladesh into either Burma (Myanmar) or Thailand. It's possible, visas and permits permitting, to travel to Kathmandu in Nepal then take a $300 tour (you can't go independently, it's not allowed) across the Himalayas to Tibet then a train into China, see the Nepal page. For overland travel from Europe to China the easy way, see the Trans-Siberian page.

Above: A key stage in the journey is the excellent weekly Istanbul-Tehran train, the 'Trans-Asia Express'... There were newspaper articles last year about the possibility of train travel from London to India or even Dhaka in Bangladesh, prompted by Calcutta-Dhaka trains resuming after 40 years and the planned completion of the final missing gap in the rails between Bam & Zahedan in southeast Iran. The Bam-Zahedan section was finally completed in late 2008 (having been "under construction" for decades) and a passenger service reportedly started running in June 2009*, so the rails do indeed now stretch all the way from St Pancras to Karachi, Lahore, Delhi & Dhaka, with just a short hop by ferry necessary across the Bosphorus in Istanbul (a gap due to be filled by the Bosphorus tunnel now under construction). However, you can't just buy a London-Delhi train ticket and hop on a train to India. Far from it! Such a 2- or 3-week trip should not be undertaken lightly, as it will take a lot of D.I.Y. organisation, including the bureaucracy involved in getting an Iranian visa, and there are security concerns with bandit attacks in southeast Iran near the Pakistan border. But for more adventurous travellers willing to brave this, it promises to be an epic trip.

^garabsare is conglomeration (sp) of clans exlusively belonging to residents of Qardho – i remember the day i learned what it was when i tried to eat keli iyo carrab with maraq and i got slapped for it and told i was a garabsare and i should not be eating such delicious food; - only certain parts of the body like the upper parts. weli ciil baa i haya because of the little slap i got before i was made to spit it out. kuwaad sheegoyso gubanka dambarsame bee degaan

far waaweyn waa qaylo - ha ugu qaylin qawdhanyohow. Carabi ma fahmo - Quranka waa fahmaa - Carabtu xata aysan fahmin. afhamtu = magaratay? isla sido kale waxaad adigu ii sheegayso - soo lama dhihi karo wiilkaad waaliga u tahay baan u sheegayeye - mise waxaad leedahay anigu dadka waan waaninin karo balse adigu ma waanin kartit??

as i matter of fact i do - what was that song - oh yeah you can reach me by railway you can reach me by trailway you can reach me with your mind you can reach by caravan cross the desert like an Arab woman I don;t care how you get here - just get here if you can i gave the same advice to issa - he is catching a train from sweden. you can do the same.

it is all a conspiracy - I have theory why they are doing this and it goes much higher and deeper than the average joe know or thinks they know.

I hate to agree with JB - but he is right Haye is hello for somali if you want to be formal then i presume the somali version of the arabic will do, which is Ahlan. Waa hagaag - alrighty then! Maaddeey Af-Soomaali ma yaqano. waa arabic script oo carrab la. Haye Ibtisaam, weli ma bristol baad ku waregeysaa ado leh Bangalore baan joga

Garabsare (the only uncensorable qabiil) KK garabsarayaashu waa badan yihiin, qolada qardhood keliya ma'aha. ari boowe yaa kuu been sheegay??

Originally posted by Maaddeey: ^I remember a certain nomad giving you hard time about Englsih language mistakes you made and mocked u being a teacher!, what was his name? Il Punto? no.. forget it! obviously, your memory does not serve you right -so try again. as for protected your protege - it would wise for you to correct him in future so you don't have to jump to his defence when ever people point out his baseless claims. As geography teacher, i can't stand muslims who ask the gaalos for direction to the qibla - now you wouldn't happen to fall into that category would you?

your geography skills leaves a lot to be desired - how did you come to the conclusion that the area controlled by Xarakaat Al-shabaab Al Mujahidiin is 'roughly' as you put it - just slightly (by small margin) half of that of somalia? do you know the biggest province of somalia? do you know how many regions (of the former 18 regions) they control? Answer - i subscribe to the the Somali principle of af ****olan wa dahab – underpinned by the Islamic principle of keeping ones mouth shut – if they don’t have anything better to say.

^they are not celebrations - its all a mourning!

^^As muslim how do you know about things like 'wet t-shirt contest', 'bump n grind' (i don't know what that is - but sounds xaraam ), 'booty shaking' etc. Also where do you get the idea that just becuase you doing something xaraam - that you might as well go and do the most extreme of xaraams since you already done bit of this and that?? "oh Allah, i was just joking - it was only a bit sarcasm" - i think won't wash - of course unless you repent. Istakhfuranllaah!

Originally posted by Showqi: Police said Aw-Marqaan Maacaleesh is extremly Xayraan and armed with Budh iyo Bakoorad . They advised people not to approach him, unless you have to offer him Baarixi

I miss Mrs DD too - i don't miss tii ragga ka neefin jirtay.

Al-Shabaab is not a Mexican drug cartel; They are the Masters and Commanders of a land mass greater than that of Great Britian, Ghana, and the Phillipnes combined. Obviously geography is not your strongest point -let’s hope you know more about Islam then you do about the land mass of countries

^calaacale - 18% of my wage can pay rent and annual travel card (all zones) and then some. now that you know that - the bridge is that way >>>

I am absolutely livid at the so called puntland administration – what the hell are they doing - not stopping these utterly abhorrent crimes being committed at their watch. Why the checkpoints are are there for – are they complicit or completely incompetent??? :mad: I have written a letter to all my contacts in puntland expressing my displeasure at these goings-on and have suggested the following major overhauls to be immediately implemented: First of – all points of exit out of puntland should be alerted to these past events that come to light. No child under the age of 18 should be allowed to leave puntland whilst sleeping or docile – they should be able to recount there family and who they are - separately from the accompanying adult. All vehicles should be vigorously and thoroughly searched – no exceptions. A hot line (2 way radios ‘halow-halow’ – if no telephones exist in certain villages) should be established with immediate effect that families can report missing children within maximum of 12 hours - this number should be widely publicised by the media free of charge. Description of missing child should be forwarded by telephone to all exists. Data published of all missing children – media should publicise these figures and warn the public of the danger. All these can be done with little effort and minimum of cost (if not free of charge). The status quo cannot and should not remain same.