HELLO WORLD. WELCOME TO LONDON AND MAY THE SOMALI TEAM KICK ASS!!!!

AMEN!!!

http://xawaash.com/?cat=8

This is where i get my Somali food fix. I guess you could say I a addicted to it.

Here is The Xawaash team making another classic from my childhood.. may Allaah reward you guys for the great job..

they interoduce(or should i say re-introduce) Somali food to me, and the delights long forgotten from my beloved country. again thank you guys.

Surah Raxman by sheikh Abdul Basit Allah yarhama!!!

Ramadan Kareem!!!

Well, it is official, Ramadan starts tomorrow, Friday the 20th of july. may this ramadan bring peace to the world and may we all have good taqwa.


Glorified is the Owner of the Kingdom of the earth and the heavens; Glorified is the Possessor of Honour and Magnificence and Awe, and Power and Greatness and Omnipotence
Glorified is the Sovereign, the Living, Who does neither sleep nor die
O all Glorious, All Holy one, Our lord and the Lord of the Angels, And the soul.
There is no God but You, Forgive us, Grant us Paradise, and save us from (hell) fire.

ameen ya allaah!!!

RAMADAN,FOOD AND FRIENDS.

Ramadan is here 20-21/7/12 about 6 to 7 days from today and will last about 29 to 30 days as usual, long hours, long cooking processes and Iftar guests are the norm and is expected. It is all about the food, friends and Taqwa. nothing more beautiful than combining Family,friends and food, it is all you need to have the best iftar ever and if you add Taqwa to the mix, that is  something else. For all the Muslims of the world, Ramadan Mubarak and wish you good Taqwa.

Late Night Chat!!!

Not sure, if late night chat is appropriate thing to do, as we all know the danger of chatting in the night... all sort of confessions that are not supposed to happen, do happen,why because we are too tired to lie or even sugar coat the truth. so, I am just going to control myself.

I have been having fun today, as I was off work, I slept till late and ate all the comfy food that I could lay my hand on(still feel bloated about that), and at the moment at 00:28am I can't bring myself to go to bed. usually, I am in bed early to a point where I have to put the alarm on for Isha prayers, not tonight. I think my system knows I am going to be off also tomorrow, a rare luxury that never happens, to have a whole weekend off, but hey, god is mercifully.

I could go out but going out in London in a weekend is not my kinda fun. watch people get drunk and puke is not my type of night out and London is getting famous for binge drinkers. even, if I went to Adgware road just to be safe, it is also becoming synonymous with sheesha/hookah addicts, again not my kinda scene. I guess, this means, I am a day person, you know, the kinda person that you would see in the midday bus, going to some museum or a gallery(obviously, the free ones). how boring and predictable!

yes, it is boring and slightly predictable to be narrowed down to midday bus lady but I like it, it doesn't bother me a bit. anyway that is me, these days.....

well, I am going to leave you all(night dwellers) to say tesbahene ala khair and let you be,

as for me, who knows, I may find another sleepless star in the dark night and make my world brighter or a midday bus rider and make a journey of our own.

ma'asalama...........

TOO HOT TO BLOG!!

It has been so hot these days that i couldn't thing a single subject to talk about other than the weather,.. it is all about the heat.

If it is cold, we complain about it being so cold, if it is tropical we complain about for being too africany of a weather. there is no happy ending in anything. Being human is a tricky thing.

Well,never you mind, Iam enjoying it, so much so that i took a week off to really soak up sun. being Vitamin D deficient does wok as a motivational. so summer in London in my brain is summer in Tahiti(OK, that is in my brain).

I spend all my days at green park and all my evenings at the balcony in our flat and my hey-fever is playing up but who cares.

it is HOT,HOT,HOT!!!

Salam to all !

Salam!

Long time no see(read), I have been just reading these days no writing at all, but weird enough i miss blogging.
Can blogging be addictive? not sure.

Anyway, here I am blogging about another blogg that I become addicted to read, I made it my mission to read all of it, this is a blogg about Somali food, not the rubbish ones we Somali Diaspora eat these days but the good hearty,healthy food we use to eat back home and our mothers use to cook.

The sort of food we learn from early age to prepare, the sort of food that makes you salivate on sight. well check it out the channel in YouTube is called Somalifoodblogg and their web is called Xawaash.com.

Amazing array of food to make you want to cook. check it out. I can assure you, you will be addicted to it too.

The below picture is from Xawaash.com.

Other than watching food channels, Things have been same old, same old, work,home, and work some more. Alhamdulillaah I can't complain. I will be updating the blogg  a bit more frequent from now on as I am not as Busy as I use to be, so Insha-allah will read from me soon.....

SO FAR SO NOTHING....

I POSTED FOUR DAYS AGO THAT I WOULD BE AS SELFISH AS THEY COME AND THIS YEAR WOULD BE MY YEAR . I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT SELFISHNESS GOT TO DO WITH IT BUT I AM FINDING OUT ,THAT PUTTING ME ON THE MAP IS NOT AS EASY AS I THOUGH. I AM NOT SURE HOW SOME PEOPLE DO IT! I CAN'T MAKE IT BEYOND THE DAILY SHOWER ROUTING AND THAT HAS ALWAYS BEEN IN THE CARD. I CAN'T WAKE UP EARLIER TO TRY TO PUT AN EYE KOHL LET ALONE A FACE MASK. HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELP!!!!! I AM NOT GIVING UP.

Happy 2012.

My Holiday Destination; Bora Bora

Long time no hear or write. Lately, I get so tired to even write. At first, i attributed that to my busy schedule's. However , I find out that I am low on vitamin D, which is causing me Chronicle fatigue. Who knew that you need lots of sun to generate vitamin D and without it your bones would break and being in England means no sun at all at times.

So , you need a Vit-D supplements, specially if you have a dark skin like me, OK, I guess everyone who did biology 101 in school knew that. Anyway, after a 2 emergency Vit-D shots and high dose tablets, here I am able to type. So, WHAT DID I MISS?!!

This is a new year and I figure it should be new me. I never was one for new year resolutions, knowing that i would never follow. Usually, I would just carry my baggage from year to year with no regards to change or innovation.

No year has been different to another for the past 5 years and if not for the fact that i have to follow the calendar for work purpose, I would be still in year 2007 and would still be quite content and happy that, there would be no holiday or a Spa weekend in 2012, well, there was that 5 week Holiday-ish in 2010, it was more like a family visit, i enjoyed, OK, admittedly there was a Holiday of a kind in the last five years.

Enough is enough!!! This have to stop, for the first time in my life I am making a new year resolution for 2012:

1: In roll in to that sewing course i was pinning for.

2: Book my summer holiday this month so there is no backing out.

3: Lose few pounds (OK, a lot, lets not talk about it).

4: Save, save, save some money for rainy days.

5: write more on my blog.

6: indulge my self.

I am going to be so selfish this year and I will be in the centre of my life.

ME, ME,ME......

There it is, wish me LUCK.