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Jamaipanese - Interview with an “otaku”
On September 12, 2007 in Interviews, Uncategorized
I guess you could say that this interview is by otakus, for otakus, about otakus.
Lost? Don’t know what an otaku is? Just google it
Wait for them to leave…
Great! Now that all of the non-otaku have left the building, us otaku can get down to business 
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Today, gentle geek folk, we are going to have a knee-slapping good time with Kirk from Jamaipanese.com. He’s on a mission to get to the “Otaku Holy Land”
Here is his story:
Jamaipanese.com’s Kirk Brown is a twenty something year old Jamaican blogger who blogs about his interests and Japan. He is one with his geekiness wants to visit the otaku holy land and live happily ever after.
ROTFL and then interview -
Daily J: What is Jamaipanese and what motivated you to start it?
Kirk: I am Jamaican and a Japan Fanatic, add my geeky interests and at least 12 hours per day around a PC and you get my blog and it’s name Jamaipanese.com
My motivation to start my own site came from me wanting a place to write about my hobbies and interests also somewhere to practice my Japanese. I discovered a few years ago that many of my interests such as gaming, technology, anime, motorcars etc are connected in Japan in one way or other so i coined the term “Jamaipanese” which combines Jamaican and Japanese and voila you have my personal/technology/anime blog.
Daily J: On your blog you post about some of the lessons you learn in your Japanese class, could you tell me more about that? Do you have a favourite one?
Kirk: I’ve been studying Japanese now for 2 years, it is fun but lately has been getting increasingly difficult. With my busy lifestyle I find it hard to dedicate time to studying which is very important but I do my best. Any post in my Japanese class logs and practice category is worth a look I have no favourites there.
Daily J: You have an interesting goal for your site in the future. Can you tell everyone what it is?
Kirk: Hopefully contributing to the cost of a trip to Japan ^_^
I see… Ok everybody here’s what we’re going to do: Sneak over to Jamaipanese now and start clicking on ads …Click fraud, officer? I don’t know anything about any click fraud… 
Daily j: So, one of the goals of your site is to raise money for your trip to Japan. Can you tell us a little more about the goal. Also what kind of things do you want/plan to do when you get to Japan? I noticed in one post that you talk about three places you would like to visit in Japan.
Kirk: My post about the 3 places I’d like to visit [in Japan] is actually one of my favourite posts and a dream I hope will come to light. I will soon decide on a feasible date for me to save enough and get everything in place to visit Japan which I am hoping will be in summer 2009 so please stick around for that :D. Just some little things like a car I need to sort out first before I make the Otaku plunge and get my heartstrings in a knot in all the excitement, I have trouble just sitting steady when i think about it.
Well, my Otaku friends, that is all for today. But please give Kirk a visit and wish him luck on his goal of visiting the Otaku Holy Land. And please stay tuned for the second half of the Jamaipanese interview tomorrow,… we have a surprise for you 
*dances around while reading interview multiple times*
^_^
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