Why do we feel this emotion?

Hello, there, yeah it's been a while since my last post but hey I'm here now so let's jump into it.
So yeah I'm not sure if you're fully conscious of it, but there's this disgusting feeling we feel pretty often in our lives. It's that feeling you feel when you have to say goodbye even though you don't really wanna. It doesn't necessarily have to be a person, it could be a lifestyle that you adapted to during the summer. Well if you still feel you're not following, then allow me to quickly explain.

Remember when you were young and were off school for the summer and you did almost all the cool things that you could think of and then suddenly it was time to get ready for school and ooohhh I know you remember those dreadful Sundays just before the first day back at school. I spent those evenings printing pictures of kanye west and pasting them to the front covers of my exercise books to try and make the idea of going back to school seem cool and inspiring, but still that dark feeling would never leave. That "life sucks" feeling, that "I wish i was dead" type of feeling. I felt this feeling because I knew that I was to say goodbye to a lot of things that I loved to do like stay up late and make mad beats until my eyes hurt and could hear the birds usher us into a beautiful summer's morning. Yes I had to say goodbye to all of this and say hello to all the jackass prefects who would constantly tell me to tuck in my shirt ( hahaha this is kind of ironic because I was later elected prefect, but that's not important, back to the story). Yes I was going back to the world that I hated, and by no surprise during this period of high school I performed very mediocre in my studies.

Oh look, it's your lucky day, this is going to be a long post :).

So yeah I'm sure you have an idea of what I'm saying. Now lets try just for a moment to step back and see the bigger picture here. Could it be that we feel this dark and empty feeling because our subconscious mind is under the impression that change is coming, or maybe it could be a message from our subconscious that another side of us will be needed if we are to be what we truly want to be. And this is what we fear, the responsibility that all of us have to be great in all that we do, we are all given the opportunity to experience our higher selves but most of us turn down this grand opportunity by entering this experience with a negative attitude.

If we think about it really, a problem isn't really a "problem", its just an opportunity to experience our ideal self. An amazing thing happened to me the other day, I was complaining to my brother of how hard life is and honestly I was being a whimp. My brother, who I love dearly, eventually got fed up of my undying expression of cowardice and decided to speak up. He firmly but lovingly placed his hand on my shoulder and said "when we were growing up, all use to talk about was how much you wanted to be the greatest and praised by all that meet you. Great men can solve great problems, great men don't cry about how hard life is because no matter the circumstance, great men always enter a problem with the sole intention of being great and winning." He then started laughing while he called me names (haha big brothers, right?).

But none the less what he said was the truth, since I can remember I would spend my free time imagining myself as a great man, or at least what I thought was a great man. So here I sit in the family study, blogging while that dark, empty feeling tries to make its way and blind me from the purest truth, but this time I will not let it. I want to be great, and I will receive every opportunity (or "problem") with nothing but open arms because I know what I want to do and what I want to be.


While typing this I know that there is a high possibility that you yourself want to be great, and at the risk of sounding like a delusional new thought author, I will here say that I believe that you yourself are the reason that you think you're not great, you yourself are the reason why you may think you're not as strong or courageous as you want to be. You may disagree and of course you're allowed to, but everybody knows that a strong quality of a great person is that of courage.
To be great we must not only show courage when we face the people who are against our well being but we must also show courage when we find ourselves thinking the thoughts and feeling the emotions which try deny us the opportunity to be the person we wish to be.

I have said a lot and I will end off this post by saying that a person is not weak if he is beaten, a person is weak if he allows himself to be beaten.

Timmy gonna see you on the flippy.

-Donje :)

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Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy!!!!

Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy I can't believe JT is going to drop his new single in a bit, i'm pretty excited. I honestly thought the man was done with music for good but I'm glad that's not the case. Now hey, I know its been 7 years and you're probably wondering why you should be excited, but don't worry, I'll take care of that haha. Instead of having you read a thousand of my boring words on why we all should be sitting on the edge of our seats right now, I think I'll just let you watch the video below. This is JT together with the legendary hit maker Timbaland opening the 2006 MTV VMA's!

Enjoy!
-Donje :)

Spanish XI

FIFA recently announced its world XI team for the year 2012, and as Easy would say, most people found it rather 'interesting.' The entire team came from la liga, in fact only Falcao wasn't from either Real Madrid or Barcelona. Clearly in the eyes of Mr Blatter and Co la liga is miles ahead of all the other top leagues in Europe. In fact, there were only two changes from the worldXI of the previous year, Rooney and Vidic making way for Falcao and Marcelo. Of course we cannot argue the inclusion of certain players like Ronaldo and Messi in the team, but the inclusion of others does raise a couple of eye brows. There's no doubting that all the players included in the team are immensely talented but in all honesty there was nothing exceptional about some of their performances. Some players were included solely because of their reputation, i could single out Casillas and Xavi in this case. Players like Pirlo, Kompany, Neuer or even the man of the moment RVP(I just had to include him) had phenomenal years and this  makes us wonder what selection criteria was used.
  FIFA does little to exonerate itself from claims that it is biased in its selection criteria, for example in selecting the player of the year in 2011, the number of trophies won were considered whereas this year it seems the number of goals scored counted more. Barcelona won team of the year for 2012 despite having won only the Copa del Rey whilst other teams had notable achievements eg Juventus went unbeaten for an entire season. The fact that there have been some reports of some  players, coaches and journalists claiming that the votes released by FIFA  were in fact not their own further strengthens the belief that FIFA is biased ( don't you just love the conspiracy theories?)

In my personal opinion the world XI team should have been balanced across all top  leagues to recognize the achievements of non-Spanish teams. La liga may be home to the two biggest teams in football right now but to me the EPL is far more exciting, who can forget the heartbreak ( or joy in some circles) of Aguero's last minute winner for City last season? All the derbies and rivalries that the  EPL comes with make it a cut above the rest.

Munya Mupa
FIFA's had its say on what transpired in the world of soccer last year, I've had mine and undoubtedly other people will have their own opinions too but like they said in junior school at the end of the day football  is the winner despite the arguments over who the best players are, so here's to another great year of watching the most beautiful sport in the world!

Messi, the greatest ever??

Messi maintained his status as the "best player in the world" this week winning his fourth Ballon D'or title. His 91 goals in the calendar year and impressive form made him a strong candidate and saw him outs Christiano Ronaldo and fellow team mate Andres Iniesta. No player in the history of the game can boast such a feat, could he be the greatest player to grace the game?

Despite only winning the Kings cup in 2012 Messi showed impressive form through out the year and broke Gerd Muller's record of 85 goals in a calendar year. Messi's form has continued through to this current season and should it continue he may well win a fifth Ballon D'or title. 

Messi is yet to win football's most prestigious prize, the Fifa World Cup. A point many including the likes of Pele will be quick to bring up. Is that a factor that should be considered when posing this question as to him being the greatest? Perhaps a fifth win of the award would solidify such a position. With the World Cup roughly 18 months away, a win for South Americans' Argentina would further cement his legendary status. His recent improved form for Argentina must surely continue if this were to happen.

Love him or hate him, Messi's greatness can not be denied. We here at the Bram Congratulate Lionel Messi on this fantastic feat. 

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Edwin Musoke

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So I'm back on Facebook and I need your help....

So yeah I'm back on Facebook, and before you decide to leave this post because of the crappy title, just keep reading and maybe you can help me out here cause certainly friends can't hahaha.

So yeah let me start off this story with a bold statement: I believe that Facebook (and other social networking sites) is the reason why most of us can't move on from broken off relationships, now hey, I know that's a pretty deep thing to say but hear me out...

In the passed if a man got dumped by a woman all he would do is delete the girl's number and move on and he would never hear from her again, like ever, unless of coarse he sees her at the store but that's not even plausible because if you're a wise guy you'd know how to avoid your ex without her knowing that you're avoiding her, but anyway back to the point.

Yeah so back in the day you broke up with a girl and that was it, done, its finished, you live, you learn, you keep going.

Buuuuuuut thanks to Facebook that's all changed. You break up with a girl and you keep her as a friend on FB because I mean you ain't tryna look like no bitch because then she'll know that you're sweating the whole break up thing, which is in my opinion not a good look.

So now you have to put up with all the dumb statuses and pictures she put's up of her new man, and you're sitting there like "Well damn, she moved on quick", and now you're all depressed because you were hoping you would hit a young "Comeback Season" but nooooope to late, she gone!

So what do you do? You deactivate your Facebook profile because this way when she asks your boy why you did that, there's an excuse like "oh no Donje is just tryna focus on school and the whole music thing".

Pow!!!! Problem solved, bitch is finally out of your life, so now you're just focusing on you and your shit, it's been six months and you feel great, better than ever, strong, you've even forgot about "what's her name". You've been so focused, that finally you set up a team called The BVC, you're focusing on your dream, and everything is BRAM!!! You're even ready to release your very first song, but then you get reminded by your smart ass manager (yes I'm talking about Eazymoney) that you can't be an up and coming act without an active Facebook profile, soooooo what do you do? You think you're a tough guy and go back on Facebook, and even get cocky about it and post a status saying "yeah, bitches,I'm back!!!!"( hahah yeah this is a long post but bear with me lol)

Then you get an inbox from the girl you've been trying to avoid for 6 months, and guess what this girl says....no like really, just guess....okay, okay, you cry baby, I'll tell you... So take in mind that the only reason you were off Facebook is to avoid this girl, yeah, so uhm, she says uhm, she says: "Hi, stranger :)".....
Like really, bitch? That's all you gotta say, you just gonna come here and ruin my progress with all that and not even have the decency to....aaaaaah screw it, so anyway yeah that's what happened and basically I need to know if I should reply or not and if "yes" what do I say? Because this bitch still got my balls and I wanna play it cool hahaha....

Hit me up on our FB page: www.facebook.com/BramVillage, like the page and maybe give me some advice, I'd appreciate it, I'll read all that you have to say and even reply, I swear lol.

With that said I will end this post and effectively end your suffering haha no I'm lying, I know you love my stories haha!!! Anyway Timmy gonna see you on the flippy (oh yeah that's my new sign off tag line lol)

love, peace and BRAM

-Donje :)

P.S: Oh yeah, that's me in the photo up there, haha I bet you didn't think I was black, and dont judge, pink is a very manly color haha, okay i swear i'm done! Stay BRAM :) 

The new year got me thinking...

So its a new year, but really what does this mean? What really is the point of celebrating a new year if all thats really going to change is the last number on a calendar? Well ever since new year's eve this question has been bothering me so I did the thinking and came up with something.

I think that entering a new year inspires crucial self analysis, or at least that's the case with me together with birthdays. With me its always the same scenario: when the clock hits 12 I'm all hyped and excited and wishing everybody a happy new year, then by 2 am the reality sets in, the reality that I am not where I said I would be on this day being it financially, career wise, relationship wise and so on. Although the period of my new year celebration just after 2 am is quite depressing, it always brings about results.

What I believe about life is that you can do and be what you want to be, you just have to consciously choose what that is, and believe it or not that's the easy part compared to what comes next (although deciding who exactly you want to be is not a trivial task) because the next step is taking the necessary action to create whatever it is you want. If you've heard my "Everybody Know" joint, you'll probably have the sense that I am an optimistic person who believes that life is far from a bitch, life is neither good nor bad, it simply is. I believe you create your own life, your own success, your own failures; the less conscious you are of this fact the less extravagant your life is, or well at least that's what I believe. How do we create the life that we want to experience? Well for that you'll have to keep following this blog and hope that I stubble across something during my intense streams of consciousness haha.

Anyway, enough of all that serious stuff, haha as I said, this subject has been on my mind for a really long time now, so when I say" Happy new year!!!", don't take it as "Oh its January, and Donje is saying 'happy new year' because everybody says happy new year when they enter a new year", na, rather take it as me reminding you to review your goals, your values, your relationships and your life in general, and also inspiring you to do your best to realize the life of your dreams. With that being said, I will now end off this post by saying: Happy new year, dear friend.

- Donje :)