Favorites

I like playing Top Ten, and I like making lists. Just in case you don't know, or if you've been reading my blog for quite sometime, too dense to notice. So I'll play Friendster Favorites. Or my own version.

My list of Inconsequential Lists

Favorite Places in Manila:
1. My Room
2. Mad Max (wherever he is)
3. UP Diliman
4. Cafe Breton, Greenbelt
5. Cafe Breton, Malate
6. Roxas Blvd. (love to drive by, esp. when there's a beautiful Mla Bay sunset)
7. Divisoria (168, Tabora St., etc.)
8. Immaculate Heart of Mary Church, Malabon
9. Ayala Center, Makati (Glorietta)
10. Hobbes, Greenbelt 3

Favorite Long Lost Food (some lost forever, some I just miss so!)
1. Kalibo Longanisa (which I bought from an agent's niece)
2. New York Cheesecake at Jed and Julian's, Adriatico, Malate
3. Makati Supermart's Spaghetti (large)
4. Hungry Hippo's greasy cheeseburger with egg
5. SR Thai's chili chicken with rice
6. Rodic's Tosilog, UP Shopping Center, UP Diliman
7. Molave Residence Hall's putok (w/ butter) and Mountain Dew, UP Diliman
8. BeachHouse's barbecue, UP Diliman
9. German SweetHam sandwich, CASAA, UP Diliman
10. Bohol beach's Lechon Cebu

Favorite Desserts
1. Rocky Road Ice Cream
2. Chocolate thunder Down Under
3. Reese's Cups
4. Double Dutch Ice Cream
5. House of Sylvanna's sylvannas
6. Sans rival
7. Sneakers bars, Nestle Crunch, Toblerone white (all on equal footing)
8. Ginataang mais (i just had one today! whee!)
9. Biko (the old fashioned malagkit one, with latik)
10. Mocha Cake (boring, I know, but that's the kind of cake i like)

Favorite Things to Watch on TV
1. Discovery's Globe Trekker (formerly Lonely Planet) with Ian Wright
2. National Geographic's Megastructures / Frontlines of Construction (I'm a nerd I know, I'm just fascinated with things I don't really understand, like Engineering.)
3. Medical Detectives (like the one in Discovery and all CSI shows)
4. CNN (esp when there's a big event, like Iraq invasion, UK's terrorist attacks, etc.)
5. BBC (i just like to tune in, listen to all those British accents)
6. Talk Shows like Jay Leno, Conan O'Brien, Oprah (before), even Parkinson
7. Documentary specials in National Geographic, just because we don't have Discovery here (wah! I want to murder those people in Sky for not offering Discovery in Camanava)
8. Battle of the Geeks (on Jack tv, my sister's favorite, but I watch it regularly now)
9. Make over shows
10. Comedy sitcoms i.e. Will and Grace, Friends, Monk, Frasier, Everybody Loves Raymond, Arrested Development, etc.

Favorite Sites on the Internet
1. Harry&Draco livejournal community
2. Merriam-Webster Online
3. Amazon.com
4. IMDB
5. lonelyplanet.com
6. Schnoogle.com
7. skyhawke archive
8. Yahoo Shopping
9. Yahoo Properties
10. Quotes Database

Favorite Movie Characters
1. Harry Burns - Billy Crystal, When Harry Met Sally
2. Prime Minister - Hugh Grant, Love Actually
3. Luke Skywalker - Mark Hamill, Star Wars
4. Indiana Jones - Harrison Ford, Indiana Jones
5. Jason Borne - Matt Damon, The Borne Identity
6. Lestat de Lioncourt - Tom Cruise, Interview with the Vampire
7. Roux - Johnny Depp, Chocolat
8. Wong Fei Hung - Jet Li, Once Upon a Time in China
9. King Buliwyf - Vladimir Kulich, 13th Warrior
10. Jack Ryan - Harrison Ford, Clear and Present Danger
10. Legolas - Orlando Bloom, The Lord of the Rings
10. Jack Sparrow - Johnny Depp, The Pirates of the Caribbean
(and I just have to cheat...oh well, Orlando and Johnny are worth it.)

Favorite TV Characters
1. David Brent - Ricky Gervais, The Office (original version UK- super funny!!!)
2. Chandler Bing - Matthew Perry, Friends
3. Dr Niles Crane - David Hyde Pierce, Frasier
4. Warrick Brown - Gary Dourdan, CSI (crush!)
5. Will Truman - Eric McCormack, Will and Grace
6. Dr. Frasier Crane - Kelsey Grammer, Cheers
7. Adrian Monk - Tony Shalhoub, Monk
8. Tom Hanson - Johnny Depp, 21 Jumpstreet (even then, he looks just as yummy!)
9. Charles - Scott Baio, Charles in Charge (i used to stay up late, just to watch)
10. Raymond Barone - Ray Romano, Everybody Loves Raymond

Favorite Things to Do on a Lazy Sunday
1. Make inconsequential lists.
2. Daydream
3. Watch TV
4. Read Draco sh-gging Harry
5. Texts
6. Surf the Internet
7. Eat Sneakers
8. Take afternoon naps
9. slow driving
10. walk around the house like a zombie

Additional...my sis added this in her entry. I didn't want to try to limit my favorite book characters into ten...but anyway, here's my attempt.

Favorite Book Characters
1. Draco Malfoy - Harry Potter series, esp spin-off fanfiction, JK Rowling
2. Harry Potter - Harry Potter series, JK Rowling
3. Holden Caulfield - Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
4. Jing Mei - The Joyluck Club, Amy Tan
5. Santiago - The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
6. Lestat de Lioncourt - The Vampire Lestat, The Vampire Chronicles, Anne Rice
7. Tristan Thorn - StarDust, Neil Gaiman
8. Michael Corleone - The Godfather, Mario Puzo
9. Robert Langdon - The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown
10. Bridget Jones - Bridget Jones' Diary, Helen Fielding


...still more lists to come.