Summer Shindig - Recap - A Grand Opening Celebration for Guppy House

It's been more than 2 weeks since we had the Summer Shindig with the Guppy House chain, but with crazy bugs on our server, its been impossible to get any thing posted. Along with personal projects to upcoming events, and brainstorming of what the rest of 2013 has in store for us. There are some exciting things to come - you can count on that.The Summer Shindig was our 3rd time around with David and his Guppy Chain. Each time we learn from our previous events. If you guys remember, we launched our website at the grand opening of the Cerritos restaurant in 2011. Last year we celebrated our one-year in December at Temple City, and this time, it’s a Summer event.Our goal was to have a relaxing vibe, an event where people can hang with friends, sip on smoothies, and absorb the entertainment. We brought back our good friends from Awthentik Vibes because DJ Skitz and his team knows how to musically interact with the crowd. We also wanted a live band, but it had to be a reggae / island influenced band, so we hired Pacific Noize. The band would set the mood for the night, plus I'm a sucker for live bands.LingMoniqueIn addition, we had to have beautiful ladies. We invited some of our favorites including The Diamond Dozen ladies. We've seen the Diamond Dozen ladies at Extreme AutoFest in Anaheim representing our friends at Infinite Auto Design and they were amazing. With the help of Brian at IAD, he patched Nilo with them and we were on our way.These ladies fit our criteria for entertainment because of their multi-talented background and their willingness to have a date with some random stranger for a small $5 donation to our charity JDRF. We thank those that donated to the cause.The venue was a bit challenging but what can you expect from a strip mall environment? We take great pride in organization so a lot of planning took place.We once again hired the P.D. to keep the peace, we contacted all the neighboring businesses, and had the city's blessing - including permits. All these tedious tasks do not happen overnight, or a simple phone call. Proposals, site plans, meetings, and fees are all part of the process. For those that showed up to our Temple City Mash-UP2 knew what to expect. During the Mash-UP2 it was hilarious to read how many people dissed us for holding a meet across the street from a P.D. station, but unless you were completely out of hand, they were not going to hassle you.At Temple City, we had 14 uniform officers to keep the peace. The Summer Shindig was no different. I hope people realize our gatherings isn't about throwing a flyer together and expecting thousands of cars to show up and get broken up 2 minutes later for the sake of numbers. What it’s about is having your close friends gather in a safe location and enjoy the entertainment we provide.I do apologize to those that were not able to park in the event area, but we tried our best to send out enough announcements to let people know we were taking $20 donations for reserved spaces and the funds went to JDRF. We didn't make a dime from it. For those that capitalized on it did a great service in contributing to a charity which is deep to our hearts - THANK YOU!For those that did not register and was still able to park in the reserved (VIP) spaces but complained about not having a good spot, I suggest you to check yourself because the world doesn't revolve around you. Be grateful for what you have been given and stop being a PRICK. HA! I added the prick because Justin thought I was being too "rant"ful, so I decided to add that to finish it off.Part of the entertainment was watching the famous NASA Crew paint our photo backdrop with aerosol cans. Fish and Mike D represented the crew and painted the 16 feet by 8 feet piece for about 5 hours. The piece incorporated the DaYUUM and Guppy logo. Once completed and the paint dried we removed the barriers and allowed people to take photos in front of it.While DJ Skitz was spinning the tunes, The Diamond Dozen ladies were doing their thing, go-go dancing for the crowd. When not dancing they were making their rounds taking photos with people and/or their cars. Thao, Monique, Ling, and Franchesca did an awesome job, much props to them and the big Thank you from DaYUUM.I do thank the rest that came out and celebrated Guppy’s 7th location, its awesome to have a gathering with close friends and family in a safe environment. A big thanks to our close friends at Scion Evolution for helping out with the roll-in and our booth: Manny, Liza, Christine, Michelle, Justin, Paul, Virgil, Ruben, Jay, and Sergio. Big ups to the rest of the DaYUUM family, Nilo, Jae, Jayson, and Scottie for all the last minute meetings and late nights preparing for the event. It was also nice to see our resident writer Chief and Angie that drove from the Central Coast to be with us. Mac and his Samoan boys, and Ming with that big ass medical rig for our girls and media to station themselves and for our boy DJ Skitz to elevate above the crowd.Thanks to Neil, Ben, and Team Klassified for support us and coming out in clean fashion. Ben's car is a bit special...

"Here’s a car I came across on the net a few weeks ago. The owner Benjamin Fernandez is/was in need of a type AB Kidney. He’s been on waiting list for a donor, but nothing has come up. He was willing to trade his pride and joy, his very MINT Toyota corolla. It’s a very sad story and I hope there is someone willing to help him out. I’ve had a family member that went through the same situation, and after years and years of dialysis a waiting a donor was available. They rushed him and stuck him in a plane to another state, He almost didn’t make it due to the donor being kept alive. God bless to all the people willing to donate." - Yogi (Fatlace)

Thanks Antonio of Motor Mavens for jacking the Mic... Everyone 86Fest August 11th, 2013Another HUGE congrats to David for his 7th location in Southern California, but don’t worry there are more locations... Stay tuned for our 2 year celebration at Chino in October. This event will be beyond amazing!In the meantime, enjoy more pics taken by Edwin, and a few I borrowed from our friends at Fatlace, JDM Zip Ties, and Scion Evolution.David and his guests.(L) Jayson, Jae, Thao, Scottie, Monique, Denny, Ling, Nilo, Franchesca, and Paul (R)The artist's and family.Kristine and DavidDabbie and EmilySerena with some yummy smoothies(L) Nilo, Scott, Kerryann, Big Mike, Denny, Justin, Jayson, Scottie, Jae (back), Paul, and David (R)(L) Nilo, Justin, Denny, David, Jayson, Scottie, Jae, and Paul (R)Edwin creepin' on Denny (ME) taking a picture to post on our social outletsBrick ToastSome highlights from our friends at JDM Zip Ties.Ferrari 430 ScuderiaPorsche GT3 RS4.0CLK63 AMG Black SeriesFerrari 599The Tea brother's FR-S; Young and Meng with FRS-86Chuck's 73 Ford Pick-up chopped and channeledBert's M5Noel's Rocket Bunny x Vertex FR-SJoey's clean daily driven OdysseyGT-R Asses.Trio of Lambos.More from our friends at Fatlace, thanks Yogi.Cool night shot of our booth with Tjin Edition.Yogi's clean GS on AirREX and WedsYogi's GS and Nilo's NSX, both on AirREXBert and Dabbie next to Chief's ElementKrist's and Ryan's xBRene's BRZ and Liza fresh new FJ - TRD Trail packageTerry Pham squattin.Infinite Auto Design was in the house with their R500Last but not least, Glen from Long Beach Auto Tech's S2000.Thanks to everyone that joined up for the celebration. If you missed out then hang tight we will be announcing some other events soon.Thanks - @DaYUUMDen