Looooooooool! Garowaan qabsanaynaa within half-day. And all Fiqikhayr can do is post warning after warnings in the other thread. Puntland is all talk if you ask me. All talk, no walk. Maanta ma waxay maraysaa, Attor guuyo sagaaro Iyo maroodaa is ilaaqay Diguu oofta ka laacoo Turaabtuu kula aasay

nuune;750910 wrote: ^^ I think you pretty well know that there are 578 positions, out of all that, the missionary one has held that pole position for 20,000 thousand years, and still leads number one. I don't want to be conjectural as the mullah friend of mine, who upon seeing any passing women with nice dress, wearing lipstick and walking in quick strides, punchs me and says "eeg, eeg, way balan santahay." But, Nuune niikiye is no more the nuune I knew. It is clear the man has evolved. Sabuuntii dharka ee waaguu yaraa loogu maydhi jirtay baa ku soo baxday odayga. This is not about this thread by the way. Dakanooyin kalaan ka dabasocdaa.

Aaaaaaah! My jungle roots! What an affliction! I forgot to thank Narniah and Aaliyah for their guidance on how to post the videos. Apologies dear sisters. It is appreciated.

Aaliyah's intervention here reminds me of the interruptions of small Mullahs in the big Arosses (wedding) in my village. At about midnight on the thrid night, you are holding the hand of a girl (occassionally allowed for this occassions if you the temerity to do so), with your left hand, and your Macawis with the right one, bouncing up and down to the tune of old Lionel Riche or Royce's hot music (which you don;t understand; and then suddenly a delegation of Mullahs from the nearby mosque, irked by the debauchery going around, gate-crushes into the Aroos and asks everybody "inuu nabiga(sCW) ku saliyo. The music is stopped and people muttter the salli. The mullahs of those days were not pushy. They give a sermon of about five or ten minutes emphasizing in Ilaahay laga yaabo before the relatives of the groom and bride finally interuupt the mullahs with "culumadu way mahadsanyihiin" and scort them to the exit ate after giving them tea and biscuits. And even before their left leg leaves the door, the music once again restarts and like the characters in video games paused while grapping tea, you at once come to life and look for the cudbi you were dancing with. By then, the brief change in the mood might have dampened her spirits and you cannot totally expect her to continue with you. You can get "no,no, bas bas walaalkay baa yimid arooska'. Max, I generally (arbitrarily too, classify somali music into three: Oldies: 1960-1980 Middle: 1981- 1995 Modern: 1996-now More accurately, wixii Sahro Daawo ka dambeeyey baa modern ah.

Juxa;750263 wrote: I have got a mixure of female and male bosses, yacni meesha dhan waa wada boss, partner, supervisor ( waxa laga baqanayaa negligence claims). My lady boss waa mid qafiif qabta oo boqol iyo toban iyo afarta ku socota, having said that she understands deadlines and tries to get the job done. my male bosses, waa qosol iyo dont worry, last minute rush, dhidid iyo walal iyo yaa arkay yaa maqlay so Ngonge, give me the crazy woman any time, give the sectioned one, give me tan rooxaanta qabta. So, Juxa basically chided me last time as the lucky lazy because she has a competent female manager and therefore other female managers must be as competent as hers elsewhere. I know Juxa is a lawyer. Lawyers encounter numbers only when quoting articles or dates. So, it is perfectly normal if she doesn't understand statistics, particularly the concept of 'statistical significiance'. How significant and conclusive is one case? And as if scoffing at Juxa, the HQ finally decided the woman I was complaining about is given forced leave and is likely to be replaced. Don't I deserve an apology from the otherwise likeable Juxa then? Will she have the strength of character to swallow pride and send me a note on this. Fingers crossed!

how do you post this as a video horta. Is there no guide for techno-peasants in the FAQs?

Come on! It is not all about the oldies. Some new songs are really great. These are good ones, and if none of you applaud my choice, I will clap for myself like Chinua Achebe's lizard that fell from the Iroko tree and swore to resort to self-praise since no one had applauded its feat. :D Haraad: Hussien and Shamso biyo halac laan Haraad u dhintee Hadaana ku helin Hog baan galiyoo Habaaskiyo ciida la igu hab siin Maanqaboojiso: Fiska and Abdi Khalid Ubax dhashay: jooqle and Warda

Malika;750243 wrote: ^Interesting that you too should have 'issue' with female bosses..lol, kinda of confirm what a friend of mine told me of males from a certain Somali area... looooooooooooooooooool! :D we know she means men from Sool and Sanaag area! We know! Anwya, malika, that women boss I dedicated a lamenting thread is no more. I think today will be her last. Not her choice. In the end, everyone got fed up. yesteray, another women abused by her was crying for hours, oo sidii naag aan la guursanay ooo kale sasabaynay inside the office. She was horrible. Good riddance. Sidaa ha nagu dayso.

Inaalilaahi wa inaa ilaahi raajicuum! Allah yarxam. She did not die. She is immortal. She will live forever through our memories and moments of happiness. She will wake up from the grave everytime we rejoice with her timeless melodies. Aawayhee,,,waxaan u ooyaa u oomaa aawadaa,,, What a voice, what a talent. I watched her in Addis Ababa stadium in late 1990s along with Mohamed Wardi and she impressed and made us the few somalis in the stadium proud. She sang Aster's "Ishururu" and the Amhara's marvelled at her sound. She was a jewel, she will remain a jewel. Sad day for Somali art.

To be fair to Silaanyo, he is never a good orator. He has problems expressing himself.

Siyad Barre was his son too. Xaajigu waa dawlad-la-nool. Waakii Gaashanka iyo Rabasso SNMta ambush gareeyn jiray. No respect for him. None at all.

I think the last para actually sullied the educational value of this piece. You should have spoke about Silaanyo's Uf elsewhere so that it doesn't stop us from reflecting from the rest of the writing, which is sublime. But something that never made sense to me is xiddigaha uu isku taxay ngonge intuu laaluushay LST.

:D looooooooooooooooooooool@ the title! Dareen uf ku bilaabmay Silaanyana beeray Bidaartii faysal Bilaawaha gaadhay Warkan baryahanba Beesha ku baahay Siyaasad basanbaastay Madaxweynihii nagu beeray Haduu..ah.. bogan waayey Bilaahiyo yaab leh! NG, you said something I always feel about myself here. I know of many things that make sense to me but would not be understood by the majority of people. Likewise, I’m sure there are things that most people agree on but I personally would find hard to fathom. I think I am weird. Many things people do doesn't make sense to me. Many things I do doesn't make sense to the people closet to me. I am happy there are some who feel like me. By the way, it was common sense for me to assume I can call Ngonge and he will answer his telephone. It is no longer common sense.

You know he is a thinker, but do you know he is also an aspiring rapper? http://zimpapers.co.zw/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5643:prometheus-set-to-catapult-to-greater-heights&catid=43:entertainment&Itemid=135 For once, I thought a SOLer has turned a rapper. War odaygii maxaa ku dhacay baan is idhi. :D

Jacaylbaro, war ninyahow malaha maskaxdaad Handicap ka noqotay? I think you understand what I mean. Norf, I am not Tom, Harry or Dick. I am Ina-Caraale and my mother from the recent favourite Habro in Hargeisa. Since Xirsi allows all HJ's in, I demand in odayga la igu sii daayo.

Alpha, Should I write full page about Hargeisa's enfant terrible - Hirsi, the young man without whose approval you can't see silaanyo to convince you that I am an insider in SL's politics?

The parliament endorsed, the president signed it, but no NGO is yet inhibited by it. No, it isn't implemented and it can never be. Pour a full pot of hot tea into my ear if it ever takes off. I am aware of the power play here. Let alone a tiny boiled banana pseduo republic like Somaliland, other more powerful nations in Africa have struggled to regulate this sector. Not that I don't wish it is implemented; I would love it. But I know it won't happen. The consequences of daring to do that are too severe for Somaliland.

ngonge, waa balaayo maskax badan. Waxa iga yaabiyey ee iga cabaadiyey wuu gartay. Yes, never have I imagined Mogadishu is what it is.But the real shock wasn't because of my visist to Mogadishu. When I worked elsewhere, I knew what was happening. It isn't that I woke up today. But it is hard to accept to be a mercenary when the subjects are your own people. I hope you see the difference. perhaps, it shouldn't be like that, and my humanity should transcend ethnicity. But it is also because other governments somehow defended their people, something utterly lacking in Somalia. Jacaylbaro, Somaliland is equally abused by the aid and deveopment industry. Talk to Ahmed Wiwa, the current DG of the avaiation, former planning ministry. Do you know of the Somaliland NGO act, and where it is today? The day Somaliland implements that otherwise sensible act is the day I will believe it is different.

Sidaas ma aha. cidna uma jeedo runtii. Speaking of furiin, you reminded me of this guy from my village. Gabadh baa nacday oo ifur tidhi iyagoon eqel-qalinba. He refused and fought it for a long time. Markii danbaa waqadii sii lagu yidhi oo looga qaaday. And then the girl was so happy she organised a party in her house. Ninkii wuxuu sameeyey ma garatay. Intuu is ag istaagay meeshi xafladu ka socotay oo mashxarad iyo heeso ka yeedhayaan, ayaa dadka meesha maraya ee yidhaa "war maanta xaafaddda reer Macallin cabdullahi ma xaa kajira ayuu si xanaaq ah ugu jawaabayey " waxba kama jiraane iska socda, tu yaroo aan furay ayaa is calool adkaysiinaysee". :D

Dr. Xinn, I went there in the morning, stayed for about six hours and flew back the same day. Bal waxa lix saac lagu qaban karo iisheeg ee diyaarad khaas ah loogu kireeysan? Jacaylbaro, somaliland uma jeedo. Somaliland deeqdeedu se waxaan ka yaabi inay tii ninkii reer-miyiga ahaa ee ninka reer magaalka ah wanka u qalay oo kale naagu noqoto. The story goes, eveytime the rural man comes to one and meets the man he hosted, he made sure the he-sheep issue always came up. War reerku xaguu yaal? Halkii waagii aan wanka kuugu qalay ayaan wax yar midig ka naal. Wiilkan aad dhakhtarka keentay, waa imisa jir? Waagii aan wanka kuu qalay laba sano dabadeed ayuu dhashay. Horta ninkii Ina-Caraale ahaa xaguu ku danbeeyey? nin baa igu yidhi wuxuu dagan yahay meeshi aan waagii wanka kuugu qalay. The story finishes with the urban man buying two fat he-sheeps, wuu u loogay, wuxuunaku yidhi "adeeroow wan danbe ha igu soo hadal qaadin hadda kadib". Inaan aniga iyo xinn wax iska uruurino oon Hargeisada gaajada loogu bakhtiyayo keen mooye sheekadaas JB naga hadhi mayso. And I mean Hargeisaa gaajo loogu bakhtiyayaaa.The urban poverty in hargeisa is very, very depressing. Magaaladaa in dad meyd ah uun guryaha loogu tagaan kayaabi waa dhow. Baahi badan baa taal laftigeeda.

Dambisa Moyo is a bit of radical economist but that doesn't mean her obervations aren't correct. i just feel she is selective in assessing the impact or lack of it of development programmes in Africa. There is more of patriotism than rationality in her analysis. Prom, I don't like the Ethiopian regime but I respect the way they deal with international humanitarian and development partners. They produce a poverty reduction strategy where they define their priorities and put most of the money they receive in these type of programmes they initiated. The Productive Safety Net Programme is a living example of how they addressed chronic food insecurity of the one that Somalia is facing. It is true they are not yet out of the woods, but they would have been in deeper crisis if they allowed the humanitarian and development industry to dictate to them. Somalia needs a propr government and soon. The sad thing is I don't see that coming anytime soon. Not when you see Xinnfanin's Mahiga-mania is all that is in the offing. By the way, although it was a short visit and I didn't see much, I found Mogadishu not as well built as I thought it was even in times of peace. The airport is very small, more like an air strip. I have tried to imagine how it was when it was properly maintained during the Siyad regime, but still the whole thing looked even less glamorous than the tiny ones you see in the some of the small West African republis.

I am officially beside myself with fury, I am fuming, I am fumbling; you get the picture! The devious ‘lords of poverty’ are turning a whole nation into beggars in the name of humanitarianism. These humanitarian ‘pirates’ erected a lucrative empire on the skeletons of starving Somalis for over two decades and the foreboding is as frightening as it is angering. At the risk of inviting another spiteful indictment of swarming the forum with inane topics from SOL’s nabobs of negativity, I am writing to you from Adden Adde International Airport. The sight I saw is depressing. This Somali nation needs much more than I ever imagined. It needs a reconstruction of the scale of Marshallian proportions. It needs much more than an uninitiated Sharif and a frail TFG can ever offer. It needs more than Xinnfanin’s caravan stupor. It needs more than Mahiga. It begs for a revolution from its sons and daughters. In the last week of July 2011, a famine was declared in parts of Southern Somalia. In the same week, it was hard to find a table and a bed in the exquisite restaurants and Hotels of Nairobi. The Kenyan capital was invaded by an army of humanitarian workers armed with laptops and projectors. You would think the hungry people in Somalia actually eat computers for a food by looking at the sheer number of gadgets that were readied to be deployed to Somalia in response to the crisis. Men and women of all ages, all nationalities, white, black, brown, descended on East Africa to ‘save’ lives and to ‘reduce’ malnutrition and further displacement. A humanitarian appeal was launched for staggering $1.06 billion. All this money to flow to Somalia between August and December. You do simple arithmetic and realize if 10% of that money ends up reaching the poor in Mogaidshu and Bakool, the nightmare would be over. Mind you, before the revision, the original annual appeal was for $ 592 million, and funding levels stood at 75% (meaning about 445 million has already been received). Yet, in January the number of people in humanitarian crisis were said to be 2 million. In August, the figures shot up to 4 million, virtually the entire population in the South. You wonder why the arithmetic is contradicting each other. You wonder why a nation that received $ 400 million in six months would see a doubling and tripling of malnutrition rates. Until you realize the bulk of the money doesn’t reach Somalia! In the name of surge capacity, over 200 UN international staff has arrived, the shortest for a month, the longest for three and more months. If you use an average $10,000 per month, the figure of $6 million is paid as salaries and allowances to the new arrivals. Add that to an already bloated bureaucracy of thousands and you get a sense of how much money is burnt in western capitals and Nairobi in the name of the Somalia Emergency. Add the millions of dollars paid to shipping and freight companies to transport food and non-food items. Add the rentals, construction, renovation and sundry costs of multifarious lavish buildings. Add the United Nations Humanitarian Air Services with the ridiculous fare. Add the fake security and safety specialists who roam everywhere with the expensive armored vehicles. Add the millions of computers, radio and audio-visual equipment procured on a continuous basis. Add the barbeque, the cakes; the drinks, the humanitarians need to be able to discuss the severity of the famine and strategies for response. And you would think you got a feel of where the money is ending up. You have not even begun. As if all that profligacy is not enough, international NGOs take their share of the loot with officially declared 7-15% overhead costs of all money received. The poor local NGOs receive a cake with three quarters already eaten. They eat ¾ of the ¾ and give the rest to locally affiliated community leaders and, where the authorities have enough muscle, they extort their share. The story has slight exaggeration but it accurately denotes the fundamental modus operandi of the humanitarian industry in Somalia. I don’t want to sound melodramatic and excuse the foul language, but the whole humanitarian surfeit is b.u.l.l.s.h.i.t. You go to Wilson Airport in the morning or to Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in the afternoon and you would think the whole merciful world is going to Somalia to save lives. Indeed, most of the humanitarians are more interested in saving or advancing or starting a career. That is the cruel truism, known and acknowledged for long time and therefore you are right in asking me, what is the news? The news is the marrow-melting contempt so visibly flaunted by members of the humanitarian and development community to the Somali leaders, and by extension to all Somalis. I have asked one of these men why they do not support progressive elements within the TFG and use them as a building block for strong Somalia state. “Of course, that seems logical, but humor me, who are the honest ones? I am working with Minister so-and so and he has run away from North America after defrauding an insurance company. How can you empower such people?” And this is coming from the higher echelons of the ‘humanitarian’ and ‘development’ agencies who are known to own private NGOs who take millions from the systems they lead and show no impact of their interventions! Hypocritical accountability! Who is calling who a thieve here? Surely, there must be good ones in Somalia’s current crop of leaders. And in any case, who says there are no thieves elsewhere in the world. Who says you have to aim for all clean system in Somalia’s current context? What the ‘Humanitarian’ pirates want is, in truth, not to see a reconstructed Somalia, but one that remains a basket case for ages. A humanitarian programme can only thrive where there is a void of governance. That is why piece-meal seminars on gender equality, female genital mutilation, governance, and coordination receive millions of humanitarian investment. That is why false IDP camps are created by a victimized community who saw themselves as nothing but beneficiaries of global philanthropy. That is why millions of plastic sheets and non-food items crowd Mogadishu. And in the few instances some initiated leaders of Somalia ask questions, you feed them acronyms and jargons: DRR, EW, Contingency Planning, Lessons learnt, realtime evaluation, taskforce, assessment, spreedsheets, maps, matrixs, draft templates, MoUs, SOPs , you name it. Is there no other ways of getting better value for all that money? Is it for lack of ideas or for lack of good-will? It is the latter. This is not a conspiracy against Somalis. This is just how any business operates. The motive of self-interest and profit-making is enough to supplant compassion for humanity. Any day, anywhere! Ask Adam Smith. Ask Mancur Olson. The only problem is elsewhere nations have some authorities who tame the greedy charities. In Somalia, there is none. And those with interest in sustaining weak government structures are advising the process of rebuilding state institutions in Somalia. It is an impossible mission. If you ride a hyena to fight a lion, you may find a missing limb of yours before you confront the lion. Somaaliyeey Toosoo!

Malika;748942 wrote: ^As for the leash and whip - come on agree, you were frustrated with dominant women. At one point true, not now really. I mostly use my little predicaments as an excuse to hit at wild feminists, who I don't like. You a traditional male must have found that hard to take..iska ogoloow hee..lol This is true.

Malika, I know you are coiming to my rescue. But ku noqo your pschology. I wish I had the back to take the leash of anyone, for if that is the case wax badan igama xumaaden. Having said that, I am amazed the moderators don't edit some blatant insults here. I am amazed no one sees a problem in the uncivil exchangs here. Must I call Uchi a son of a whore who ended up in his mother''s stomach only by escaping condom, for the admin to see a problem? it is not like there is shortage of vocabulary to insult one another.

Dr. Xinn, Ilaa shalay waxaan islahaa hees u tiri xinn runtii using amin amir cartoon. what a coincidence you were also thinking of same at the same time? MAHIIGAaan iyo Xinn baan dhex mukhuuranaayaa