Movies:
Cant narrow down to a short list
Television:
My inner geek is obsessed with Nip/Tuck, National Geographic, Science Channel,History Channel, 24, Entourage, Family Guy, Simpsons, Arrested Development and X-Files re-runs, obsessed with the Cooking Channel and extremely anti-reality TV
Books:
"Blink", all Harry Potters, all Robert Ludlum novels, "Kite Runner", all Michael Crichton works, "General Ignorance", "The Other Boleyn Girl", "The World Without us", "Davinci Code", classics-- all time favorite is Hugo's Les Miserables and Rizal's Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo...etc
Heroes:
My Mom's grandfather who was once a Justice of the Philippines's Supreme Court and my Dad's father who served as Lt Colonel in World War II. He brought home stories about personal interaction with Eisenhower and shared aircrafts with McArthur but at the end of the day considered his family his greatest achievemnet and joy