Movies (Quentin Tarantino & Johnny To), Football (Manchester United and Inter), Novel (Michael Crichton & Jin Yong), Rock Music (Dire Straits & Tang Dynasty), Chess (Bobby Fischer), Photography, Badminton (Lin Dan and Fu Haifeng), Juggling (three balls now), etc.
My top ten lists:
- Sci-Fi/Fantasy novels: [1] Jurassic Park + The Lost World (Michael Crichton), [2] Nineteen Eighty-Four (George Orwell), [3] K-Pax (Gene Brewer), [4] A Song of Ice and Fire (George R.R. Martin), [5] Sphere (Michael Crichton), [6] Watchmen (Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons), [7] The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams), [8] Old Man's War (John Scalzi), [9] 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (Jules Verne), [10] The Martian (Andy Weir)
- Anime series: [1] Cowboy Bebop, [2] Astro Fighter Sunred, [3] Hanada Shonen-Shi, [4] Samurai Champloo, [5] Robotech, [6] Futurama, [7] One-Punch Man, [8] BECK: Mongolian Chop Squad, [9] Genshiken, [10] Beast Claw
- Manga series: [1] Slam Dunk (Takehiko Inoue), [2] Dragon Ball (Akira Toriyama), [3] Space Brothers (Chuya Koyama), [4] 20th Century Boys (Naoki Urasawa), [5] Ciguatera (Minoru Furuya), [6] Touch (Mitsuru Adachi), [7] Gon (Masashi Tanaka), [8] Fullmetal Alchemist (Hiromu Arakawa), [9] Shinya Shokudo (Abe Yaro), [10] JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Phantom Blood (Hirohiko Araki)
- Travel destinations: [1] Edinburgh, [2] Devon, [3] Stockholm, [4] Las Vegas, [5] Kyoto, [6] Taiwan, [7] Prague, [8] Singapore [9] Sydney, [10] Cape Town
- British beer: [1] Adnams' Ghost Ship, [2] Exeter Avocet, [3] Fuller's London Pride, [4] Guinness Draught, [5] Oakham Citra, [6] Sharp's Doom Bar, [7] Black Sheep's Black Sheep Ale, [8] Butcombe Rare Breed, [9] Stewart Radical Road, [10] Theakston Old Peculiar.
- Textbooks: [1] Fundamentals of Wireless Communication (David Tse, and Pramod Viswanath), [2] Information Theory, Inference and Learning Algorithms (David MacKay), [3] An Introduction to Statistical Learning: with Applications in R (Gareth James, Daniela Witten, Trevor Hastie, and Robert Tibshirani), [4] Doing Bayesian Data Analysis: A Tutorial with R and BUGS (John Kruschke), [5] The Scientist & Engineer's Guide to Digital Signal Processing (Steven Smith), [6] Elements of Information Theory (Thomas Cover, and Joy Thomas), [7] Reinforcement Learning (Richard Sutton, and Andrew Barto), [8] Convex Optimization (Stephen Boyd, and Lieven Vandenberghe)