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3 years to live: 'Ask Aamir to enter politics!'

We asked readers what they would do if they had only three years to live life to the fullest? While the contest closes on November 23, here are some interesting responses. And keep them coming, because the best entries win prizes from rediff.com

Vikas Shetty, 35, has the following ideas in mind:

1. Drive all expensive cars for three years.

2. Purchase a mansion in Mangalore.

3. Take my family on a world tour.

4. Meet in person with Narayan Murthy, Sachin Tendulkar and APJ Abdul Kalam.

5. Buy all the gold in this world and make India a Super Power.

6. Lock the entire lot of corrupt people in a container and drop it into the Bermuda Triangle.

7. Declare holiday on every August 26 (Mother Teresa's birthday) and distribute sweets to people living below the poverty line.

8. Become Education Minister and make all schools and colleges non-profit organisations.

9. Ask Amir Khan to become a politician, so that we will have a perfectionist in our Government.

10. Request God to change his plan of ending this world after 3 years, so I can enjoy the changes brought by the above 9 points.

'Play the next James Pond, paired with Megan Fox'

Here's what R Lingeshwaran from Chennai would do:

1. Suggest a better hair style for Barack Obama.

2. Punish Osama Bin Laden and make him rebuild the Twin Towers.

3. Request Dr Manmohan Singh to declare a national holiday when I pass away.

4. Ask Kajol and Sharukh Khan to dance to a song from DDLJ (Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge).

5. Teach Sachin how to overcome pressure when he closes in to 100.

6. Play an ODI cricket match against Australia and hit 6 x 6 in a Brett Lee over.

7. Play the next James Pond, paired with Megan Fox.

8. Get all the black money deposited in Swiss banks and share it with each and every Indian.

9. Ask Rahul Gandhi to marry an Indian girl.

10. Build a pyramid for myself and come back to earth.

'Open a sex museum like the one in Amsterdam in India'

B Anupkumar, 36, from Chennai, would do the following:

1. Say YES to all telemarketing calls offering credit cards and loans. Grab them all.

2. Go around the world -- cover a decent part of this trip on hot air balloons.

3. Live in the Amazon Forests for a while.

4. Do para-jumping from the North Pole.

5. Call Ekta Kapoor and all other saas-bahu serial makers and tell them that their serials are evil. If they don't stop airing them, keep them all soaked in glycerine till they agree.

6. Get copies of all those half-baked philosophical books that claim to probe the highly childish question 'Why am I here' and burn them all. Distribute the writings of Wodehouse and Douglas Adams to all the people free of cost. This combined with Point 4 above would make the world I leave behind a great place to live.

7. Ask Bush if he really was THAT STUPID or it was all a publicity gimmick.

8. Join the Osho community.

9. Open a sex museum like the one in Amsterdam in India. Call the leaders of various senas for the inauguration.

10. Trek to Everest. Say bye to the world and do a free fall from the top.

'Record a song with my favourite band'

And here are 17-year-old Hyderabadi P Swathy Reddy's ideas:

1. I would try to top in my engineering college.

2. I would record a song (written by me) with my favorite band GREEN DAY.

3. I would definitely study at HARVARD or STANFORD or MIT.

4. Write a novel or at least a book on poetry or modern songs.

5. I would work hard enough to compose the music (on acoustic guitar) for a song written by me (I do write few stanzas, but I have never finished writing one completely) and get it recorded.

6. I would attend a music school (maybe by taking a break after my graduation) for few months.

7. I am interested in wildlife photography, so I would try to click one photo which would win some award.

8. Take a course in fashion designing.

9. Take a course on ad film making or copywriting.

10. Finish doing a course on deejaying and deejay for at least one party.