what's the word for 'obvious'.

Dude, I reckon I saw u too .Not as many Somalis there as should have been. U'll have to say a little more than Mashallah to get attention though I won't suggest anything. A lot of innocent things can come out wrong if the timing is wrong or if the lady is armed with attitude. Well done volunteering.

^ not if u want to tuug me, buster.

Second that, Brown. Never heard of 'oori', is it only for 'wife'? And is it exclusively 'wife'? Same for 'afo', a word I'd forgotten existed. Eed is beyond me.

Ninkayga, it is like saying, 'My man' which I absolutely DESPISE. I'm looking for a word for husband and wife that exclusively makes u think of partners in a marriage. Marwo is disgusting. Frumpy and dumped on. Naag na sheekadeeda ilow. What else is there? Castro, I feel danbi for hijacking your topic.

Yusuf was, don't think the other one was.

Isn't that word used to mean 'family' too?

so was I. So there was no bald guy with u? U know what, let's drop it, and stick to the event. Who else went?

I didn't think they said guilt in Somali. Interested to know. Also, if u don't mind: an exclusive word for 'wife' in Somali.

I was the nosey one. I didn't see u with kids but there was a coat and another Somali guy(zero hair on the head but bearded) and a woman in a blinging hijab. Were u up front in the green area? I only ask becasue as part of all the other weird characteristics I display, I also have premonitions, visions and make bang-on guesses. Now run and scream. I know more.

Think of a topic and start it. This one doesn't count- numerically, it does(so it achieves your goal), otherwise no(so the rest of us are out of luck).

^it's all over I'm afraid but read Orgilaqe's topic: here and here's the link: theglobalunity

Fariid dheh. I don't grow up, I merely mature. BTW, were u wearing a khamiis and do u have a beard? Though I know a significant number of those 22000 were. Saw this guy and thought he looked like an orgilaqe.

oh let it die and do what's good for you.

Liibaan, let an Indian into a country and there's a very good chance he'll contribute to that economy. I got cheated a lot(they didn't know I could understand them hehe) and even when I accused them of being dodgy(when I was at my wits end) they would never ever apologise or admit guilt. Don't go to India if u're looking for a neat ending to stories. Farxan, I got taken for a ride too(and this too on my first ride in India). The guy was from the Tourist Office at Delhi airport- official I thought but I didn't realise that his office was one of 3 at the airport and only one was official and it wasn't the one I'd picked. I got to see a lot of Delhi though. LoL. When I had enough he took me to their main office in Connaught Square and who should be sitting behind the desk but an Arab. I got nowhere with him; he was as evasive as the others. All he could say was,'This is India'. It took hours to get to my destination; if the humidity hadn't drained me I'd have knocked the driver out. At one point he said something like, 'If I told u I loved you, what would you say?' I told him he needed to stop talking and keep driving. LoooL. So damned Bollywood. Nobody asked me if I'd eaten. Lots of other nosey sh*t but not that. So did u find romance anywhere?

I got a 1am call from a friend the night before last. Friend: asalaamu caleykum Moi: wa caleykum asalaam Friend: do u want to go to the conference? Moi: what conference? Friend: the Islam Channel one Moi: yeah, sure, when is it? Friend: tomorrow I love weird friends that ring in the middle of the night to treat me to a wonderful day. Congratualtions to all involved. It was very satisying and well-organised. Yvonne Ridley shook the conference. How many takbirs did she get? George Galloway was made for making speeches- electrifying, what a gift. Those two were far more fearless with their speeches than most of the others. I was also impressed with Salma Yaqoob, one of the founders of Respect. She had a good point to make- no peace without justice. Tariq Suwaidan in his Arab garbs speaking in English about the eventual resurgence of Islamic power was also good. It was good to see a Khaleeji talking about puppet regimes and what the West could learn from us. Some of the speakers rambled on about peace. They just didn't have an angle and were unable to engage the audience. Not everybody is made for speech-making I suppose. Now this Zakir chap. I heve never seen nor heard him in action. I hear about him now and then so I was interested in getting to hear him especially as the audience went wild every time his name was mentioned. It was a good idea to leave him to last so the audience would stay till the end. There were workshops etc also held in some of the rooms. Dr Zakir Naik was to hold two of these- for a small number of people. I tried going to both of them but the organisers must have severely underestimated the number of people that would be interested in seeing him at work in those workshops or it was meant only for the VIPS. Either way I(and others) did not appreciate being told it was full and then cancelled altogether. I suspected the alleged cancellation was a lie on the first occasion. My friend and I both returned to our seats suspicious. If it was full, an admission to that would have been sufficient we thought. Why the conflicting versions? I returned to the second workshop to hear the same story, or should I say stories. I hung about cause I'm nosey and don't like being lied to. I saw Tariq Suwaidan being ushered in and knew the workshop hadn't been cancelled. I called my friend to see if she'd made it in and she had. One of the presenters comes on stage to say the Dr Zakir Naik workshop had been cancelled. That was a bad call. My friend returns to my side TWO whole hours later, beaming(she wants to marry Zakir). Either it had been cancelled or she had been in the Twilight Zone for 2 hours. Anyway, she missed Yvonne Ridley. So her mother and I made her jealous but I think it was no contest; she nearly asked Dr Zakir a question, nearly and that alone would keep her going for the next twenty-years worth of dinner parties. I was beginning to think the legend wasn't real until he appeared on stage at 7:55pm. So many were on their feet I couldn't see him. The guy reminded me of Deedat(bless his soul), the quick, little flick of the hand to make a point and its return to his chest. Deedat had a spark though, didn't he in his eye, and u smiled when he did. Dr Zakir was good however. Structured, well-informed(a memory for scriptures) and creative. Beautiful. I do wish people wouldn't idolise him though. All I heard was his name and swoons in voices. He's good, let's leave him mortal. My friend says when he held the Twilight Zone workshop he said he'd never had this much security even in Bombay and was surprised by it. He also said he never cancels his appointments- he must have heard story number 2. The fireworks were beautiful and looong. We stayed till the end, it got cold but inside all was warm, empowered and happy to be Muslim. Marvellous day. Next year they hope for it to be a two-day event. I'm looking forward to it; there was so much going on yesterday, I never made it to the exhibition and missed a couple of the speakers. P.S: I'm still wearing my wrist badge, I couldn't take it off last night and I don't want to cut it- sentimental little git that I am.

I never promised to render u senseless, kid. Why do what's already done and done so well by you yourself? Gotta conserve my energy for more worthy causes. Now that I know u want it that bad, I shall be withholding the battle u desire so fiercely. Ain't life a bij? Now take a deep breath. And hold. And hold. And hold. And hold. And hold. And hold. Hold some more. Just a little more. A tad longer. In yar oo kale. Xooga yar ku sii dar. Hold. Hold. Hold. Peace will come. To all of us. Sweet dreams.

LOL an all-night chewer? May be not so random and probably what u don't want to hear.

Listening to Yassin. Used to know a lot of it from memory. Feel foolish that I don't know it like I used to. I shall take it to bed and start learning it from the top again. Satan will probably put me to sleep as a result. Can't a girl get a break!? I'll pass on the hammer, love. Self-harm is soooo late teenage years. I've heard the above is recommended for errm trapped gas too.

C, that sounds like it needs intense concentration. Seriously, that works? Ran out of milk. Bathing wakes me up. I know what I should do: read some Quran. I'll start with listening to some to chill me out.

Concerns over tilting Taj Mahal dismissed Fears that the Taj Mahal’s minarets are tilting dangerously and its base sinking on one side have been dismissed by the Archaeological Survey of India, which says it has not detected any structural damage at the base for the past six decades. Indian authorities launched an investigation in October when historians reported that the Taj Mahal was leaning and in danger of sinking. But the four Taj minarets were observed to be inclined at various angles by the Archaeological Survey of India’s (ASI’s) first scientific survey in 1941, which examined the position and verticality of the minarets as well as the foundations' stability. That first report noted that three minarets tilted by 1.5 to 3.0 inches (3.8 to 7.6 centimetres), while the fourth southwest-facing minaret was tilted by 8.5 inches (21.6 cms). It concluded that the tilts were either part of the original design - to prevent all the minarets from crashing in on the main dome in an earthquake - or the result of some sub-soil displacement and settlement centuries ago, Doraiswamy Dayalan, Superintendent (Archaeology) at ASI, Agra, told New Scientist. The report found no cracks at the minarets’ base or their 300-metre-long plinth, but recommended regular four-yearly surveys to check on them. Urgent attention A survey by ASI and UNESCO in 1985 found the tilt in each minaret had increased by 0.1 inches (0.3 cms). But Dayalan says this was considered “statistically insignificant†and a possible error in measuring the 40-metre-high minarets. No structural damage was detected during two other major surveys in 1991 and 1995. Apart from its regular surveys every four years, the ASI does not plan a separate survey of the 350-year-old marble monument in Agra, says ASI director general Babu Rajeev. But the ASI is at odds with some Indian historians who fear the southwest minaret is tilting dangerously. While Babu Rajeev asserts “the Taj is in excellent shapeâ€, Agam Mathur, a historian and former vice chancellor of Agra University and Ram Nath, former historian at Rajasthan University, insist the tilts need urgent attention. Water worries Mathur also fears that the drying up of the river Yamuna - on whose banks the Taj was built - has led to its sinking on its northern side, which is now 1.44 inches (3.7 cms) lower than the southern side. The monument’s foundations lie on huge wooden slabs over deep wells, says Mathur. The structure was designed in accordance with the continual flow of water against its northern wall, he adds, and as the river dries the northern side is sinking. Dayalan disagrees, saying none of the routine studies since 1941 - which include foundation checks for recent displacements and settlements, load misbalance due to stress compression, structural defects, and cracks in the base - indicate a shift in the plinth. He adds that the wells lie only beneath the northern side of the plinth and were in fact designed to keep the water away from the foundations. The most recent survey on the Taj was done by ASI and Survey of India in 2000-2001 and found no structural changes. source

^baaaq baq baq baq.

I am so bored and will not be sleeping tonight on account of that old no good boomeranging lover Insomnia(he's baaaaack). May as well get myself a cup of tea and not go to bed until fajr. Gonna frustrate Insomnia. Bwahahaha. Anybody wanna troll with me tonight?

^though there is something to be said for consistency.

^LoL. Hey, innocent until proven Mijoyar.