My grand list of Hobbies and Interests

Rules: They are categorized as Full Hobby and Partial Hobby. The former means that I am very interested in it, and regularly put time into it. The latter means I am interested, but only read about it sometimes, and usually only about a specific topic in that field.

Full Hobby

  • Wikipedia
    • Editing
    • Reverting vandalism
    • Mainly railway and anime-related on Chinese Wikipedia
  • Railway
    • Mainly station and line design, incl. tickets, passenger information display, announcements
    • Urban planning
    • Less so: rolling stock, photography, riding on it for the sake of it
    • Exception: I am interested in all aspects of Macau LRT
  • Computer
    • Networking
      • Wi-Fi, RADIUS authentication, VLAN, VPN, router, etc.
    • Programming
    • Hardware
      • Building computer
    • Cryptography
      • AES, RSA, PGP, etc.
    • RFID
      • Java Card
      • FeliCa, APDU, etc.
      • Mifare 1K hacking (changeable UID cards, cracking)
    • (I major in Computer Engineering, what do you expect...)
  • Photography
    • Landscape
    • Portrait
      • Cosplay
    • Astrophotography
      • VERY beginner
  • Anime
    • Mostly romcom, isekai, slice of life
  • Music
    • Play Piano
    • Mostly listen to J-Pop and Anime music
      • Vocaloid
        • Tried to make something when I was 12, never came back to it
      • Organizing local music files, tagging them, adding album art and lyrics
    • Rhythm games
      • maimai, Chunithm

Partial Hobby

  • Education
    • Mainly Secondary education (grade 7-12)
    • Mainly on the curriculum design of different countries
  • Linguistics
    • Mainly sociolinguistics
    • Chinese/Japanese/Korean Unicode Standardization (CJK Unified Ideographs)
  • Fonts
  • Religions
    • Mainly on the basics of all major religions around the world
    • Dietary requirements, how many gods, origins of the religion
    • Organization structure
    • For Christianity: difference between different churches
    • (I am atheist though)
  • Ham Radio
    • Receiving TV signals from far away using own antenna (e.g. Hong Kong TV from Macau, Bellingham TV from Vancouver)
    • Listening to airport ATC
    • Listening to ham radio
    • (after I get the license, probably will turn in to full hobby)
  • Electric cars charging standards and protocol
    • Not anymore
  • Architecture
    • Modern architecture enjoyer , especially those with more wood
  • Politics
    • Comparing how the same thing is handled by different countries, e.g. covid, immigration, election
    • Filing taxes
    • World History of the past 150 years (all countries but especially East Asia)