Ntjam Rosie sharing her thoughts...welcome!

PHOTO - Black&White

2012-03-14T12:37:00.001-07:00

I got a black and white film from a friend and made some pictures with my analog camera that I got from another friend ;-) #SweetFriendsIndeed

Ntjam Rosie - Again & Again + elle part 1 @ Goois Jazz Festival 2012

2012-03-11T14:24:00.001-07:00

Some words for you

2012-03-08T02:39:00.001-08:00

You are beautiful
You are worth while
You are made to love and be loved

Peace&Light
Ntjam Rosie

Peace

2012-03-06T03:23:00.001-08:00

Ntjam Rosie - Morning Glow :: Rockstone Sessions

2012-02-12T13:11:00.000-08:00

Word

2012-01-26T15:45:00.001-08:00

In God is my salvation and my glory: the rock of my strength, and my refuge, is in God.

Psalm 62:7

This Thursday!!! Come and vibe with us #NL #elleclubtour

2012-01-15T05:32:00.000-08:00

Win tickets for this concert here

Ntjam Photo

2012-01-11T16:58:00.001-08:00

Happy new year!!

2012-01-01T03:32:00.001-08:00

2011 was a great year. Ups and downs. Ins and outs...it was quite a journey.
I move on though, full of strength, gratitude and faith in the Lord.

I let go and let God. May His holy spirit touch my soul more than it already does.
I am a soldier of love. 2012 here I come. " ...be as shrewd as snakes and harmless as doves." Matthew 10:16

Peace, love, health and happiness to you my friend. Remember this when you are down, the only way is UP. Spread love and stay positive because the time is always NOW and TODAY.

Happy 2012!!
Ntjam Rosie

Me in the dark

2011-12-22T17:56:00.001-08:00

PHOTO•Clowds and stuff

2011-12-17T08:19:00.001-08:00

We are having a "warm" winter here in Holland. Today I felt and saw a little bit of what the winter feels and looks like.

WORDS

2011-12-01T16:59:00.001-08:00

For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.
1 Jhon 3:11

<3

Rehearsal shots

2011-12-01T16:49:00.001-08:00

Hi there

Here are some shots of me rehearsing for the 5th Anniversary of Music Matters with their house band.
Love Ntjam

New winter look

2011-11-25T12:06:00.001-08:00

Hi there

The winter is in town. And I think it's time for a new look :-)
The ladies of the 60's inspired me. Tammy Terrell for example. Gotta have fun with "hair". Don't you agree?

Peace and love
Ntjam

PHOTO • Leave the light on please

2011-11-17T17:50:00.001-08:00

Global warming and meat or no meat

2011-11-14T15:17:00.001-08:00

How are you doing? It's cold here in Rotterdam. But I don't mind. It's the "windy winter rain" that I am not really a fan of. I respect the seasons. Winter is cold, spring is blossom ( maybe the best season after summer if you ask me), summer is hot, and autumn is wet.
In my song "again and again"( you can listen and BUY the song here ). I sing about seasongs coming and going. That is nature, that is life. We are making a big mess of it though. Summer nowadays is autumn, and autum is summer. Very odd, but no surprise. We are messing up the earth we live in.
We should all try to contribute to a better world. I am not miss "Green", vegetarian and stuff. But I have been thinking about all of this. It is important that we become more aware. Let's spread the awareness.
I can not stop eating meat, because I like it too much!! #sorry!
BUT I now try to eat less meat, and when I do eat meat, it has to be "biological" ( if that makes any sense..)

Do these thoughts make ANY sense? Ah well....day by day, step by step.
I am trying.

Peace and blessings to you my dear reader.
Ntjam Rosie

PHOTO•Kruiskade Rotterdam

2011-11-08T01:26:00.001-08:00

Hi there,

Rotterdam is my city. I live there, hang out there, walk there...and I see things.
Here are some snap shots of last week. Just some random stuff.

Like watching television and eating candy, catching up on street messages ..you know...daily life stuff

Much love
Ntjam

Summary : Bangkok, Koh Samui

2011-10-11T23:38:00.000-07:00

Hi there..

I am in my appartment in Rotterdam right now. But I want to take you back to Thailand for a bit if you don't mind :-)

Where to begin? There is so much to tell. But I will be brief.

I went to Thailand in September. Me and my band were invited to perform at the Bangkok City of Jazz Festival and Samui Jazz International Music Festival. The trip was AMAZING!! It was such a blessing. I have never been to Asia before, so you can imagine how special it was.

At Bangkok Airport

Huge Poster at Random Busstop in Bangkok #cool

My room at Pathumwan ;-)

Bangkok at Night

View from my room

At the busstop hihi

In the cab #lol

BANGKOK

The flight from Amsterdam to Bangkok took about 11 hours. Somehow, flying to Bangkok felt very heavy, very tiring. I guess because of the anxiaty and excitement I felt.

The minute we set foot in Thailand, it was like stepping into an oven. My god it was HOT!! Coming from

Holland "summer" ( read- cold, rain, wind..), the heatwave ( yeah...I might be overreacting a little bit ) was a nice welcome.

From there on, everything went smoothly. There were a shuttle bus with driver waiting for me, my band, and all the other musicians that flew over for the festivals. While we drove to a super deluxe, five stars ( yes I did count them haha ) hotel called Pathumwan Princess Hotel in the center of Bangkok.

You know what surprised me when I gaised from windowseat in the bus? Bangkok's scenary looked a lot like the one I am used to see when I travel in Cameroon. It somehow felt like home because of that. And let's not the forget temperature that is similar.

We arrived at the hotel and I see a huge poster hanging in the loby with me on it. Wow! Very cool. Some ladies that were working at the hotel even wanted pictures with me when they recognised me. All very funny and somehow surreal at the same time.

After freshing up in my ( amazingly beautiful and compfortable ) room, I was ready for Thailand. I have taken all kinds of massages. Even my bones felt like jelly afterwords. That was so nice. Some of my bandmembers, including myself, really had to get use to the spicy food, we were wornd, but still you don't know untill you taste the real thing (HOT as in FIRE in your mouth and heat in your whole body...whoe..!!)

The first days in Bangkok were great. It was no holiday though. There was work to do. To begin with a meeting with the whole delegation and the people behind the organisation behind Bangkok city of Jazz and Samui Jazz. I should not forget to say that the Dutch FPK was also a huge support in making the trip possible for me and my band. I am very grateful for everyone that helped out in making the tour possible.

We jammed and ate in a very cosy bar called Brown Sugar. That was a nice first day in Bangkok.

The second day we had to perform for bookers from all over the world at the Bangkok City of Jazz festival that took place in an artcenter near the hotel. The gig was challenging, but went well, and we had time to out the other musicians and do some networking with important people of the business.

The day after we performed at a Charity event held at the Pathumwan Princess Hotel.

It was a very classy event with a lot of nice people that were really listening to the music. Very very cool. I got interviewd on for Thai tv and there were quite some celebrities in the house too! It was packed. We raised good money for the Children Cardiac foundation.

The day after we had to leave the beautiful hotel to go to an even more beautiful Island called Koh Samui. The flight to Samui was scheduled very early, check out was I believe at 6 am ( very early, especially if you only had one hour of sleep!!!) Man I was TIRED! But the Bangkok - Samui was only one hour, so I was cool.

KOH SAMUI

This Island was A M A Z I N G L Y beautiful!! Wowww....like woww...

It's weather, people, dogs ( yup lot's of streetdogs, but they are kinda cute though, and that coming from me, says something, I am not really a pet person you know.. ), it's food, nature did I mention the beaches???

Well, the list goes on and on..

Not only the Island was beautiful, but the people that we encoutered we so good to use. I felt like royalty, like a princess everywhere I went. People treated us with so much love and respect.

This time stayed in a resort in the South of the Island called Banburee. We had the most wonderful time over there. It was so beautiful..really. We bonded with every single person at the resort. We became a family for one week haha. They took so good care of us. Guiding us through the Islad and stuff, making sure we had a nice experience. I know it's part of their job to do that, but I really fell in love with those people. And I know they felt the same way about us.

They gave us the "Island" feeling. Relax...take it easy. We even went canyoning from a 80 meters high waterfall (!) together at Samui Tropical Garden. And even there we made friends with the crew. I'm telling, we met so many nice people during this tour.

The gig at Samui Jazz at Beach Republic was nice. Very nice. People were dancing ;-) We were sweating so much during that gig!! You could fill a bucket fool with my sweat!! It was HOT!But I didn't mind. I did not mind at all.

Before that we got an unscheduled gig at a Bar called the Spirit House. Not planned, but very nice experience though. After the gig we danced, ate, danced, drank ( no acohol for me..really haha ) and danced like CRAZY!! I had so much fun!! And Maria, Bente and the driver from Banburee were there with us. Wonderful times.

Off course I did some shopping and all the tourist stuff too. I stayed there for 12 days in total. Almost two weeks. I have to be honest with you, it was hard going back home...back to the gray, rainy and cold weather. But home is home, there is no place like it.

This experience has a special place in my heart forever. Thank you for reading ;-) Feel free to leave a comment.

Till the blog

Much love and bliss to you.

Ntjam Rosie

WORDS

2011-10-11T19:43:00.001-07:00

Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.

HEBREWS 13:5

covetous |ˈkəvətəs|adjectivehaving or showing a great desire to possess something, typically something belonging to someone else : she fingered the linen with covetous hands. See note at greedy .DERIVATIVEScovetously |ˈkəvədəsli| adverbcovetousness |ˈkəvədəsnəs| nounORIGIN Middle English : from Old French coveitous, based on Latincupiditas (see cupidity ).

Ntjam goes Thailand

2011-09-13T17:35:00.000-07:00

Hi Dear reader, follower, friend, supporter ;-)

It has been a very long time right? There is so much going on. To be honest, it's not like I am busy EVERY day. So I have had the opportunity and time to write, but I just didn't have the energy. Since I am already pretty active on my social media. Anyways...I am back!;-)

I could not have my first tour to Thailand and NOT share my experiences with you!! Gosh I am soooo excited. In a few hours I'll be in the plane with my bandmembers and management. None of us have ever been to Thailand before, so it is an adventure for us all.

I have almost finished packing. According to my clock it's 2:28h AM! I should go to bed..but I don't want to. When I am excited I like to just skip the night, as if it doesn't exist. My body off course disagrees with me #lol...

The picture on top is a page from the Esquire ( Thailand ). I wish I could read it...totally different language. I am gonna check the language a little bit, that way I can say something nice to the audiance during my concerts ;-)

I am curious about you guys, for those of you that have visited this beautiful country ( Bangkok, Koh Samui ). Where should I go? What are the hot spots?:-)

Love

Ntjam/Rosie

My New Video MORNING GLOW

2011-06-29T05:27:00.000-07:00

Director: David Jon @ Studio Stylique

We shot the video in London. We had greaaaaaatttt weather!! Amazing, I tell you. This is a chill out summer track, enjoy!

Peace&Love
Ntjam Rosie

Ntjam Rosie bij Inspirational Grooves - mei 2011

2011-05-02T12:58:00.000-07:00

Ntjam London

2011-04-22T03:19:00.000-07:00

Hi There

I was in London a few weeks ago, and it was great! I did a gig at the Mau Mau Bar and much more, more about that soon. But for now I would like you to enjoy this version of In Need.

Peace&Light
Ntjam Rosie

Making of SPACE OF YOU

2011-02-20T02:54:00.000-08:00

Hey hey hey hey hey y'all!!

How are you doing? Good I hope! Remember, worries are not for us to carry, God takes care of that!;-)

I will be releasing two new singles on my birthday!! Marth the 18th that is. Here is a behind the scenes of the shoot of "Space of you".Sooooo excited about this! Peace&Light!!

Jungle Jam Cd with Kids of Music Matters with Producers Nelson&Djosa

2011-01-25T15:06:00.000-08:00