Anime Nation 2013 will be on August 10th

It’s that time of year again Jamaica Cosplayaz in Association with The Embassy of Japan in Jamaica presents Anime Natio

Japanese Animation Film Festival and Manga Poster Contest 2013

The year 2014 will mark 50 years of diplomatic relations between Jamaica and Japan. One of the first events to mark this occas

Meet Polar – a Kitten I rescued

Two weeks ago I was at work, while heading outside to get some fresh air and escape the confines of my freezing office buildin

My Twitter Video – Check it out and share yours!

There is no shortage of posts here that cover my love of Twitter. My latest post less that a month ago details my appreciation

Kirk “Jamaipanese” Brown featured in today’s Gleaner Youthlink

A few weeks ago at a technology related press event I crossed paths with a representative from the Jamaica Gleaner who heard a

Meet my Star Wars: The Old Republic characters

Star Wars: The Old Republic is an MMORPG that I have been playing on and off for a year and a half now. With the first year of

From the Jamaipanese.com Archives – May 2013

Its been a while since I trudged around in the Jamaipanese.com archives to gasp at some of my immature posts and gut wrenching

Appreciating Twitter – Six Years After Joining

6 years ago I signed up for a Twitter account, it was new, it was unknown and I liked experimenting with new stuff. For the fi

Star Trek Into Darkness

My annual summertime love affair with expensive action-packed blockbusters has begun. I skipped Iron Man 3 in favour of Star T

My First Loot Crate – Gamer Geek Goodies

Its no secret I am a gamer and I am a very proud geek, so when I discovered a website a few months ago that promised to send m

Achievement Unlocked! First year of college complete

2 semesters, 9 courses and almost 10 months after stepping into UTECH for my official first day as a university student I can

Chronixx – Smile Jamaica – Video and Lyrics

Jamaica’s local music scene has spawned many international hits and superstars over the decades and our music has influe

Mount Fuji may become a UNESCO World Heritage site

Japan’s list of Unesco World Heritage sites could rise to 13 if Mount Fuji gets added to the list when the UNESCO’

Jamaipanese is now on Instagram!

I recently acquired a Samsung Galaxy S4 (more on that later) to replace my now ancient HTC Legend and while going app dow

Solid State Drive upgrade for my aging Gaming PC

I often day-dream about some day owning uber awesome gaming rig complete with $1000 graphics cards, dual 32 inch monitors and

Jamaipanese portrait by @Khisayama – Thank You!

A few days ago during my regular perusal of the Twittersphere I happened upon a tweet by my pal  @RYOtheSKYWALKER that showe

Japan Earthquake 2 Years Later

Two years ago today on March 11th 2011 Japan was rocked by a 9.0 magnitude earthquake. The earthquake plus the resulting tsuna

Birthday Celebrations at Japanese Restaurant Cocoro

Ever since learning about Japanese restaurant Cocoro in late 2010 I’ve always wanted to visit. Billed as the best place

Dragon Ball Canned Drinks help raise your power level

Feeling that you are not strong enough lately? Are you being defeated by inferior adversaries? Not able to punch through steel

Learning to Love Computer Programming

Information technology is a wide field that provides a variety of options of study and specialization. In today’s world

Little Kaiju – Animated Short film

I rediscovered a short film I first saw a few months ago called Little Kaiju that I forgot to share. The 3 minute short film

Help me Rediscover my Anime Mojo

I’ve barely watched any anime in at almost two years. I can’t put my finger on the one singular reason why instead

Today marks 7 Years of Blogging on Jamaipanese.com

Seven years go today I made my first post on Jamaipanese.com, young and bright-eyed, excited about studying a foreign language

Jamaipanese.com wins big at Jamaica Blog Awards

Today is a good day for Jamaipanese.com. At the 2012 staging of the Jamaica Blog Awards at  South Beach Cafe in Kingston I w