Music:
acid jazz (jamiroquai...), samba (anything jobim...), standards (frank sinatra, nat king cole...), local pinoy bands (sandwich, sugarfree...), coldplay, ETC!
Movies:
films by tarantino, historical epics, LOTR series, cornball movies (think: leslie nielsen :D)
Books:
anything by cs lewis & madeleine l'engle & antoine de saint-exupery & roald dahl; "memoirs of a geisha"; "the god of small things"; "jonathan strange and mr. norrell"