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3 years to live: 'Make Raj sing the National Anthem 100 times!'
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
K Chandra Sekhar has the following ideas in mind:
1. Have a pleasant weekend at Rashtrapati Bhavan with the President.
2. Convey my feelings to my loved one, of how much I love her (I have been a silent lover for the past 5 years, no hope as of now...).
3. Roam around in London with Katrina Kaif in an autorickshaw.
4. Steal a Harvard MBA degree.
5. Buy a jet fighter and with Bin Laden next to me, show him how his plan was executed on the twin towers.
6. Make Raj Thackeray sing the national anthem 100 times in a day.
7. Buy BMWs in bulk and run a taxi service.
8. Set up a state of the art library in all capitals for Civil Service aspirants.
9. Become a judge on a reality show, where Adnan Sami, Himesh, Pankaj, Kumar Sanu and Udit Narayan compete for a title.
10. Show Bill Gates how his company's software is used across the world in pirated versions.
'Get my whole body tattooed!'
Here's what Siddharth Gollapudi wants to do:
1. Follow Rafael Nadal and watch all his matches.
2. Watch all the Grand Slams, especially Wimbledon.
3. Go on an African safari.
4.Beg Bear Grylls (of Man Vs Wild fame) to allow me to accompany him on his trips.
5.Try and date as many girls as possible.
6.Get a good physique. Dying with a 6 pack would be great!
7.Get my whole body tattooed.
8.Get my life insured for a huge amount so that my family gets a lump sum after my death.
9.Tell Kanti Shah that Gunda is the best movie ever made and should have gotten an Oscar.
10. Tell Kamal Rashid Khan that he is the most handsome man ever born. After telling the above two lies (points 9 and 10) God will not wait for 2012, he will to kill me right away!
'Domesticate a lion and commute to the office riding on him!'
Here are 30-year-old Chennai resident S Subhash's plans:
1. Walk barefoot in a paddy field.
2. Domesticate a lion and commute to the office riding on him.
3. Learn to ride a two-wheeler, and go out on it with my loved one on the backseat.
4. Live in a dense forest with my loved one with no electronic gadgets/ cooked food/ luxury, till such time as I feel like coming back.
5. Persuade all bank chiefs and corporate chairpersons to grant all their respective organisations' assets as EMI-free loans to all citizens of this world in reverse proportion to their income -- finally, a chance at equality.
6. Catch Osama Bin Laden alive and treat him in Apollo Hospital for his psychosis. Once cured, call the FBI and CIA and hand him over to them.
7. Meet the President of China and persuade him to manufacture at least one quality product in his country.
8. Subject all former and sitting Pakistani leaders (political, defence, ISI) to brain mapping in Bangalore.
9. Write a book on the life of a martyr who donated his life in the Kargil War.
10. Have lunch with a Nobel Laureate.
'Throw an open challenge to Michael Phelps'
And here is an entry from New Delhiite Deepak Grover, 32:
1. Break this news to all AIDS patients and party with them.
2. Take all of them to the offices of the Indian Government's Panchvarshiya Yojna and laugh on their faces.
3. Throw an open challenge to Michael Phelps to beat me in the swimming competition of the 2016 Olympics.
4. Buy a house next to Madonna in Beverly Hills on mortgage at a high interest rate
5. Create aliases of the Queen and the Pope on Facebook and send messages to the MLAs of the Samajwadi Party and invite them to dinner.
6. Buy one-way tickets to Paris, and burn my passport in front of the Eiffel Tower. Then try to contact the French prime minister and see what happens.
7. Repeat the above for other Schengen visa member countries.
8. Sachin Tendulkar will have gracefully retired by then, after scoring 100 international centuries. Tease Ricky Ponting to equal the record!
9. Hold an auction of my used tooth brushes and invite the whole Bollywood film fraternity.
10. Request the ICC to award honorary world cups to South Africa, New Zealand and England, citing special circumstances.