Boduberu Collection.

Here is a collection of 21 Boduberu songs. Thanks to Maldiviandigital,Bandey and Sappe' for sharing. And any one who have more songs puleeez let me know.

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1. Aadheythoa
2. Adhabee Salaam
3. Bismillaa
4. Dhaifulhu
5. Dhaiy Elhee
6. Dhanvarah Keyolhu
7. Dhoanidhoagnah
8. Enmen Ekugaa
9. Kuriereythoa
10. Maazeevee Kaabafain
11. Mahakah Nudhamuhey
12. Moagu Lava
13. Moosunbahaaru
14. Raajjeyge' Masverikan
15. Rehi Araa
16. Roathoavey
17. Roohudhee
18. Thundi Reethi
19. Vachuvarey
20. Ya maruhabaa
21. Yathi Araa

Dhivehi Raajjeyge Adu.

I haven't blogged for a long time,and ive even been away from mvblogs and internet in general...ofcourse, other than facebook and msn messenger.so, here is a kewl video i saw on you tube.the guy imitates VOM programs.i would say he is a radio broadcasting machine.Atually there are many who can imitate stuff like kuruvaahaka,news,siyarathu and some others (even i tried at times...maybe i should give it a try once again).but this guy is different,he have it all by hearted and brings special sound effects (see atholhu habaru).this is just great.creative,talented!


Originally uploaded to youtube by yoopys

inauguration of the national seminar on history and heritage.

Seen here is the 'Tharaagandu' at K.Atoll Kaashidhoo(Picture taken from kaashidhoo.net)..It is said to be the remains of a Buddhist monastry which dates back to 12th century AD.

Archaeological excavations of this Buddhist temple/monastry , by a research team, from the
University of Oslo, Norway, was begun in 1996, on the island of Kaashidhoo.These extcavations were continued in 1997 and 1998. The team was led by Professor Egil Mikkelsen of Norway. After the excavations, the ruins were covered by plastic, sand and stones to protect them from destruction.

Ivisited the place just when they discovered some corpses there .I heard that the research team will be leaving soon.that means the work will no be continued.Again after an year i went back to kaashidhoo and discovered that it was a play ground for children.they would go and pee in to the ancient well there.they would break parts of the historical remains of the temple(some kids even brought it to the house i was staying in).I was not shocked. because my house is not far from ali rasagefaanu Ziyaarai (in Male') ,which was a junk heap until it was renovated and opened for tourists in October 2002.And he was mulim mujahid..... no wonder they wont give a damn about the remains of a Buddhist temple!!

There are several other Ziyaarais or shrines of Maldivian saints and heroes which have been neglected and even destroyed by the government.You all will know the area called Lonu ziyaarai kolhu, no more ziyaarai is there now.They even stopped Maldivian cultural festivals like Maaloodhu.My said that the giraavaru people practiced their traditional thaarajehun and vajidhuvun until it was banned by the government.

And then there is Dhivehi language.so many words used in different islands..are lost day after day...i dont think any effort is made to collect these words and document em(even jaa have done more than what they do by giving us the radheed free).and i thnak maldivesroyalfamily.com and maldivesculture.com for all the information ive got from them about my country,its culture and heritage.

Bodu beru is some thing almost all maldivians like...but no work is done to promote it.,they keep on saying youth are going more and more western and no one is interested in maldivian culture.

talking about history..i guess yo will know that maldivian history is re-written in a way some one wanted it to be.ive already mentioned what he did to maldivian historian , shafeeq.

and.i dunno.i was just watching TVM there was this seminar about culture going on.The brother in law of Gayom; Abbas Ibrahim -who is the 'president' (lol) the National Centre for Linguistic and Historical Research thanked gayom for many things and then awarded him something, apparently for being the savior of maldivian culture.After sometime the gayom himself was speaking about maldvian culture.he started by saying that Quran Mushaf (printed copies of the Quran) are the biggest maldivian heritage as we are muslims...and after sometimes i thought i was in Islam class.he was talking about mushaful uthman and mushaful imaam and about how the Quran was revealed and how it was collected.how some prints of the Quran were burnt and one single copy was made the canonical print.and how it was sent to syria,egypt,and many other countries.and i dunnno what happened next i have started writing this post by that time.

phew!so much about maldivian history,heritage and culture..If you are interested in maldivian heritage, I think you would find this [pdf] interesting.

muneerukee ganduvaru ge vokkolhu and bed time

"muneerukee ganduvaruge vokkolhu alikurevvi fadhain alhuge hiy alikuravvaa faandheyve".how many of you know this thing?I learned this from my mom, i had to recite that aloud after her voice...she would be saying it after the shahadhai.There is another version of this thingy, which says 'hithaai loa' instead of just hiy.

It can be translated as "(O lord!Illumine my heart [and my eyes-(in the other version)] as you have illuminated the lamp of muneeru kee palace"

the last part...muneeru kee might mean in urdu muneer's...so it can be said as lamp of muneer's palace...if that is the case...muneeru might be a place or a person.the word muneeru..i think has its roots in the arabic word noor..which means light.muneer means..brilliant or shining. so it is all to do with a light...a bright light...which have it's source in a lamp...some kinda holy lamp (because it is vohkolhu)...

as a kid when my mom dictates that and when i myself recite it after her voice...i used to think of a bright golden light, a palace which is illuminated with a golden light... and it have some thingy hung somewhere in the middle of it ... and this light comes from it...and spreads to the whole palace, illuminating it...and then through a small window ...it comes out and these needle-rays strike my chest (heart).....when the light touches me i can feel it.thats how it was to me, back then.thats what i felt about this thing.

actually , it is some kinda prayer to illuminate our hearts (and for some, the eyes too).illuminate might have two meanings here:1. to become bright (characterized by quickness and ease in learning)
or
2.it is about the light of truth (in this case islam) entering in to our hearts.
A hadith says that every time a muslim gives in to temptation or sins...a black dot covers his heart and finally after days without repentance the whole heart is covered with this...and then it is sealed and no light (of guidance) would enter it after that..this is referred to in the Quran 83:14. and there is also a similar prayer which prophet Mohamed recited at dawn:

"O God , illuminate my heart with light, and my eyes with light and my ears with light and let there be light on my right and light on my left. Let there be light above me and light below me, let there be light in front of me and light behind me. O God, make me a light"(Sahih al-Bukhari Vol. 8 p. 221-2)

yet,i dont know what this thing really is.i dont know the origin of this utterance.but i do know that many people says it..and still many dictate it to their children at bed time.and i dont think there is anything wrong with that...though some might make takfir of (consider to be an infidel who have to be behaded) those who do this because they think it is bid'ah, while others may condemn it saying it is part of Arab colonialists' propaganda to take over Maldives and their rumaafalhi. heheh

and oh! this muneerukee thing reminds me of the good ol bed times.i would have to brush my teeth,wash face...and most importantly wash my feet (the command line for sending us kids to bed includes washing feet...bas ahaigen dhefai dhovegen sahaadhai kiyaigen nidhan oshoavey.)...and i would go to sleep after reciting the shahadhai (with this muneerukee ganduvaru part) and after i used to blow three times on my chest... now,im ready to sleep...but if i talk to any one or say anything at all after this....i would have to start everything over again....from shahaadhai. :S

if we are a group of kids....we would cover ourselves with the blanket or pillow and talk secretly (telling stories sometimes)..imagining ourselves to be in some kinda tent.

usually i would be sent to sleep when the damn CNN starts (that would be break time of the hindi movie they send every thursday night on TVM)...now i have to do some thing....i make up the other half...usually i would be in that half...hehe..most probably some superhero guy.and the rest i would see sometimes in my dreams....but what if i didnt watch one half of a movies?...still there is another way.My cousin bro, jiz taught me that...he said he do act as if putting some tape in to a VCR before going to sleep...then he would take the (imaginary) remote control and press play button....and lie back and relax..and start dreaming up the movie...and the rest would come (in dreams) sometimes.....i also tried this many times.

and..drinking water before going to bet and......errrr...cuticura powder?.. aaaghh! there are too many fragments of childhood memories tagged 'bed time' ...so before this post become the longest post ive ever made..ill stop here..

btw...have u every tried any of these things as a kid? your mom dictate you shahaadhai?and most importantly ,was muneerukee ganduvaru ge vokkolhu known to you before?

Maldives Bodugulha Hits Chart.

There are certain songs that becomes so popular in maldives...where ever you go, you here it.many of them eurodance style,which i believe become popular through the tourism industry.and the old TVM also have something to do with it.for what ever the reason they became popular..they have been popular all over Maldives.and most have been one hit wonder songs(throughout the world).and sorry that this time its only from evering'e bai.these are mostly celebration songs.party or hithaanee season songs.

but i couldnt find many of em.what i found ive put it here (thanx to radioblogclub).i couldnt find; for example what sounds like "ney nanannaaa"...well thats what we used to call it as kids.im sure u all will know that one!the one which some one (haifa?) sang a dhivehi song 'mee raaje ey' at the inter school singing competition(i remember her as wearing a black thashibari dress..hehe).and there are many other such songs...which i couldnt find.

so,i hope u enjoy these songs.u must have heard it some time.lets see what memories comes to you?...heard it at some island?,hithaanee season?eedhu? zaeemu wins election eedhu?a party(no dammit!, not a political party..the old ones..the good ones)?a disco?what ever it is...it sure makes me feel...i dunno.strange.

PS.i will need your help to improve this chart.any additions or subtraction,or division or multiplication...or any other criticism is welcome.unless it is about copyright,becoz it was on radio blog.ask them about the copyrights,muhahaha.

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Los Del Rio - Macarena



Vanilla Ice - Ice Ice Baby



Dr.Alban - Its My Life.



Mr.President - Coco Jumbo.




Snow - Informer



REDNEX - Cotton Eye Joe.



Khaled - Didi



Ini Kamoze - Here Comes The Hot Stepper.



La Bouche - Be My Lover



Las Ketchup - Aserejé (The Ketchup Song).




All 4 One - I Swear.




Ace Of Base - All That She Wants.

Aqeeqah Rituals.

Yesterday,I captured a hen being sacrificed (with my handphone's video camera)
..( its the ritual of naming a new born baby on the seventh day ..or 'aqiqa'..in the early days of islam a goat or something like that is sacrificed....but the Maldivians who cannot afford or cannot find a goat in time ...always makes a sacrifice like this)...traditionaly this is a very big feast where people (relatives, friends,neighbours,poor people and others) are to be invited..but these days in Maldives (specially in Male') we just perform the rituals and send the food in parcels (in Maldives its usually bondibaiy and kukulhumas-chicken.)packages to the people.(if u r in male' just call +9607773240 to 'faseyha point' shakir to make arrangements for goats,bondibaiy packages with free delivery and all aqiqa stuff) This is very helpful coz every one is bz these days..but i think we cud still hold on to the traditional ways and sen parcels to people who cant come...

Anyway here'z the video footage of the hen bein sacrificed.! click on video image to view it online...

...if you want to save it...right click here and do it!(and play it with quicktime player)