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Derek

Speak your mind. Know who you are. Know what you want.

About Me

...If you aren't the lead dog pulling the sled, then the view will always be the same...

My Interests

inspiring others, movies, cooking for friends, showing off how much I can eat, Dr Pepper, cold pizza, milk tea, excel spreadsheets, gadgets, WiFi, climbing, PADI Dive Master, ECO-CHALLENGE, Hong Kong Record Holder, Stratego, 'SC Football, Pasadena, Chipotle, REI, The MGM Mansion, Vegas Baby!!!, http://www.howstuffworks.com, http://www.wikipedia.org

I'd like to meet:

Mark Cuban, Jacques Cousteau, Bruce Lee, Nicolo Machiavelli, Steve Wynn, Walt Disney, Akio Morita, Larry Ellison, Warren Buffet, Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Ashley Judd, Jessica Alba, Eva Longoria, Don Cheadle, Nat King Cole, Ghengis Khan, Alexander The Great, Donald Rumsfeld, Ariel Sharon, Lynda Carter...and I wanna kung-fu fight with Jennifer Garner!!!

Music:

Anything from the 80s, Old School Hip Hop and Jazz

Movies:

Crash, Glengarry GlenRoss, Full Metal Jacket, Swingers, Taxi Driver, Crash, Man On Fire, About Last Night, Resevoir Dogs, Blade Runner, Dog Day Afternoon, Interview With A Vampire, Wall Street, Stand By Me, Poltergeist, Scarface, The Breakfast Club, Any Given Sunday, some Hong Kong movies

Television:

Entourage, CSI, Discovery Channel, Nip Tuck, Desparate Housewives, Tilt, Sex In The City, The Sopranos, Six Feet Under, The Mind Of The Married Man, Third Watch, Worst-Case Scenario, Ultimate Fighting Championship, ER, LA Law, Wiseguy, Cheers, Three's Company, Gilligan's Island, Leave It To Beaver, Beverly Hill Billies, Space Family Robinson

Books:

Green Eggs and Ham, The Professional Chef, Liar's Poker, Sun Tzu's Art of War, 48 Laws of Power, The Tao Of Jeet Kune Do, Le Petit Prince, Michael Porter's Competitive Strategy, Getting to Yes, The Tipping Point, How Would You Move Mount Fuji?