This weekend I had the opportunity to DJ at  UCLA's Dance Marathon , it was a 26 hour marathon to benefit three beneficiaries and raise awareness in AIDS research and prevention in children. The crowd had me hyped up, check out the vids, sorry for sound quality, my web cam cant handle high sound pressure levels:

Me Closing out my DJ Set

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Derek Closing out the 26 hour marathon

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This was my fav part of the night, I love a DJ booth with a view.


DJ Kase, another one of the SSL homies, he had an old school set b4 I went up.

Here I am, check out our performer shirts.

The end of my set.


Matte black, I think I'll keep this look for a while.

the final hour

Derek closing his set.

wow what a weekend.

so last night my phone decided not to play any ring tones and started complaining all my sound files were corrupted. I tried to do a soft reset and the problem didnt go away. Windows mediaplayer was corrupted on my phone. Weak sauce. So I plug my phone into the computer to try and save the contacts and lo and behold the stupid OS on my BJ 2 Crashed. Instead of a blue screen of death you see with windows, in windows mobile you get the white screen of death. Great huh? BLAH.

I had to hard reset the phone and I had to reload all my mods Ive done to this phone. No biggie, I had all my mods backed up as one huge cab file. 10 minutes later my custom OS Skin was running, skyfire was running, tiny twitter and all my ringtones were back on the phone. the only thing that could not be reloaded were all my contacts =( so Im still trying to get everyone's information... this time Im transferring all of these to a CSV file on my computer that will sync with Google contacts and gmail which will then sync with my BJ2 and the iPhone ... w00t.

Lets start off the week with some rain and some Fail

So this week has been one super cold week in so-cal. Normally we would have temps in the upper 70s to the mid 80s in winter but well the temp this week has not gone above 50. BRRRR ice cold. I kicked off my week at Disney's Cali adventure on sunday for my lil niece's birthdays. It's funny how I live 15 minutes from disney, I've been around the area so many times but I have NEVER been inside california adventure. It was my first visit and it was kind of cool I guess but the park itsself was a big fat FAIL. I mean wow... sn0oze lol. By lunch time I was ready to go home lol.

Dont get me wrong, the handful of attractions were good but I felt like they could have done better. we'll see since they will be rolling out a lot of new changes by 2010.

Monday the rain started to pour and my new Analog jacket came into work just in time to keep me from getting drenched. That was some cool stuff. By tuesday the rain let up and the cold air mass just decided to settle over so cal where it kept everything a nice frosty 39 degrees. The windchill made things worst, hopefully it warms up soon.

Valentines Week

I don't know how it happen but I ended up with 3 valentines this year haha. This is going to be fun.

last night I was boiling some water for cup o noodles in one of those water heater pitchers. When I tried to pour the water in the little cup, the top of the pot came loose and twelve ounces of  212 degree water rushed out of the top  instead of the spout and made a home on top of my left hand. ... sizzle.

yea I burned my hand but its not that bad. I immediately ran to the bathroom where I covered my left hand with a blue aloe vera gel used to treat 1st degree burns, you know the stuff that paramedics carry around. I have that stuff for sunburns... works wonders. I wrapped my hand in cotton wrap for about 30 minutes and let the gel soak in. So now it feels like I was just sunburned. On the upside, It burned off all my dead skin =P exfoliate ... yea haha.

It started raining today at lunch, such a relief from a week of having a straight 80's. Yes 80 is the norm in socal durning winter . Any way, there's something about rain that relaxes me, it probably was the combination of music blasthing through my earbuds that made me stay on task. Now to just keep this habbit up =)

In other news, I dont feel as bad now when I have one of those crappy moments. Cynthia sent me this link earlier today: http://www.fmylife.com/ F*** my Life. Some of the entries on there are freaking hilarious and some of them I can totally relate to. This entry was pretty funny because back in college, everyone in the computer science bulding hated the mechanical engineer majors for getting on the elevator from the second floor when we have to go to the 4th and 5th floors. haha

So It's the month of February and to many it is known as the month of love. I've been reading some friend' blogs the past few weeks and it's been filled with nothing but talks of marriage and other "Im so into [him/her]" type entries. So much to the point that it makes me sick, but then I also stopped to think... "maybe i've been single for too long?". Nah lol.

Anyway, it seems like all the blogs I've been reading lately have been about their plans for valentines day. It's great to read about these things since I have NEVER in my life had an actual valentine. Never had the opportinity to go out on a valentines date, never had a valentines kiss, never had valentines gifts, etc. Yea I know sad. It's just that for the past 2 years, I've been living the single life just dating a different girl every week. Every relationship I had prior, never lasted long enough to even consider that other person a valentines potential. I am totally not good at these things. Maybe Im too picky? I dont know? I don't really care. I thought I met some potentials in 2008 but well, lets just say they didnt turn out to be my type anyway. Moving on...

2008 has been more of a year of self discovery for me. I spent alot of time reconnecting with old friends and reconnecting with the things that made me happy. I made alot of new friends also, met this cool girl but she stopped talking to me right around the new year so she got left behind in 2008. As I have mentioned in one of my earlier blogs, I dont talk to people who dont even take the time to talk to me. If you got left behind, there's a reason why you're not in my life now. I deleted about 130 people off my phone simply because I have not heard from them at all... their names were just  taking up valuable space.

2009 seems to be awesome so far. I've made a lot of new friends and I actually have a valentine this year, only thing is, she's gonna be in Utah on valentines weekend ...crap.

My ears took a beating this weekend. Im usually good at keeping the volume down in the DJ booth but I had to crank it.

Friday - Beer co.
      Usually I keep the volume down on the monitor and my headphones but there were so many rude and obnoxious girls climbing over the barrier to come bother me. At one point this one chick pulled my headphones off my head to talk to me while I was in the middle of mixing in a song. When that happen, my hand hit the emergency unload button the mixer trying to catch my headphones and scratchLIVE went back to playing the previous track. I straight told the chick to fuck off.  She came back 2 songs later and kept bugging me so I turned the volume up on the monitor so I couldn't hear her incoherent ass. Then a group of girls kept trying to get my attention to play that stupid beyonce song in the middle of an electro set. They kept yelling that people don't like electro, uhmm sorry, just because these 2 bitches dont like electro doesnt mean the whole crowd doesnt. The fact that the dance floor was packed didnt help their argument. One song later and they barged their way into the booth and said "stop playing this, we can't dance to it, nobody in here can dance to it", I pointed to the dance floor and said "the people on the dance floor dont seem to have the problem" . Then I cranked the monitor to a blistering 130db to get them the hell out of the booth.   Oh the girls weren't the worst, these Kanye loving assholes got on the dance floor and tried to block everyone from dancing. Stupid haters, no parking ont he dance floor. Jay aimed the fog machine toward them and held the manual fog button down to try and fog them out of the floor. I think he emptied the tank of fog juice. LOL  The stupid requests kept coming and I finally used one of my sound bytes and it blasted over the sound system to put these idiots on blast "HEY! NO REQUESTS TILL I SEE SOME TITS!!!!"  that worked. haha

Saturday - Private function 9pm - 3am
    Well I didnt blast the music in the booth. I had the monitor in the DJ booth at -23 db, about 80 db in loudness in the booth. It was a small party in my standards but damn that was about 120db in the middle of the dance floor from 9pm to 3am in the morning. Although it wasnt very loud in the DJ booth, My ears were still shot from friday night so they were not getting the rest they needed.

So now my ears are actually hurting, i hear ringing and all because of stupid drunk girls on friday barging into the DJ booth...