Oh!

another year has gone by another wrinkle has appeared, as a friend of mine aptly put it! Yes, today is the day I should officially celebrate my ageing, but I have never celebrated a birthday in my life nor do I intend to. Why celeberate growing old?
To be quite honest, I don’t even know [...]

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Self welcome…

Finally I have decided to join WordPress. With this being my first post, I am still in the process of familiarizing myself with its features. I have, using help, managed to successfully import posts from one of my previous blog (instead of giving them new dates and making them seem recent). But unfortunately some of the images [...]

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Julian Beever…

Julian Beever’s is an English artist famous for his “Pavement art”. He has painted on the streets of England, France, Germany, USA, Australia and Belgium, creating a striking illusion of 3-dimensionality when viewed from the right angle. Here are sopme of his paintings – Very creative one must admit!

by Julian Beever

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The Four Wives…

I received this by e-mail and thought I’d share it with you…it is something worth reflecting upon

Once upon a time there was a rich King who had four wives. He loved the 4th wife the most and adorned her with rich robes and treated her to the finest of delicacies. He gave her [...]

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Quote of the day -

A man may meet a woman and be shocked by her ugliness. Soon if she is unaffected, her expression makes him overlook the fault of her features. He begins to find her charming, it enters his head that she might be loved, and a week later he is living in hope. The following week he [...]

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Road Trip Gone Berserk…

It happened right at the traffic lights of A4. We were in the middle of a three lane motorway when it happened. A BP vividly stood on the left of us and Gillette within a few meters away. I was behind the wheel and had just started changing the CD from a Somali Mix to [...]

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Drama at Wembley…

Yesterday, after a long day at Uni, my colleague, Leila, invited me to attend a play by some young Somalis at Wembley. I was informed nothing more than it was “a play by some young Somalis” so I went ahead without expecting anything much, thinking “nothing Somalis do ever fully succeeds”. But this was different. [...]

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Regarding English…

English is a beautiful language indeed. But some people have degraded it so here I’m compiling a list of words and phrases that should be banished from the English Language for Mis-Use, Over-Use and General Uselessness…
I was actually listening to Anna Raeburn on LBC 97.3 when she was talking about the same thing. [...]

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My First Pics…

The Millenium Dome

Canary Wharf.

On my way to work – towards Canary Wharf!

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The Month of Romance…

Soomaalidu waxay ku maahmaahdaa, Haddaad tagto meel laga il laayahay, ishaa layska ridaa and the equivalent translation of this proverb would the equally similar English proverb When in Rome, Do as the Romans Do –that’s precisely the philosophy many Somalis are adopting while they are adapting to changes in culture and environment.
Somalis are people of [...]

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No One Cares…

Nights i lay crumbled in my bed
Trembling with dejection and fear
Sheets covered wholly by the tears i shed
Haunted by the ache and angst like a nightmare
Frowning with an unendurable agony
I pass the crowd with great stealth
Dragging my feet with melancholy
Would this rather jeopardize my health?
Tormented by my dire and distressing predicament
Faintly i contemplate as my [...]

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Knock, Knock? WHo’s There? – DEATH!

A convoy of cars slowly strolls down the A12, leading to the A406, on its way to the Islamic Cemetery in Chingford. My friend, Nur, is to be buried today. How slowly and stealthily death stole on him. Yesterday here he was, lively and full of fun and laughter – playing football with us every [...]

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Yob Culture…

After an exceedingly strenuous day at work, the only thing you expect is a hassle-free journey to your dwelling. One minute you’re lost in contemplation; your supper, a warm bath to unwind in and relieve those fatigued muscles and your quilt might seem the only things discernible to you; the next minute you are bracing [...]

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Can a Virtual Community be any different from the experience of a Real Community?

As the reality of the Information age becomes more certain, people are beginning to understand the vast expanse of new media. They are starting to experiment new ways to interact with one another and interconnecting with different people across the globe. The massive technological explosion that is occurring, some say, is just a start of [...]

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The Introduction of Information and Communication Technologies and the relationship between Journalists and their Audience…

Introduction:
The nature of communication has changed quite significantly over the years. The internet has now becomes the means of gathering and disseminating of news. Digital technology has profoundly affected the way journalists carry out their daily jobs; it has changed how they accumulate and report news. The traditional media has been enormously augmented by the [...]

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Greetings, Greetings!

My first post! My First Blog! “My first time”

Finally! What a relief! Computer geeks would have probably done this within two minutes, but it took me exactly 1 hour, 4 minutes and 33 seconds to create this simple blog. It proved nerve-racking despite the fact that all i had to do was choose and the [...]

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