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10 things before I die: 'Brunch with Rahul Gandhi!'
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
First up, we have Swati Kumar from New Delhi:
Here are the 10 things I would surely do before the dreadful 2012:
1. I would let my mum, dad, brother, nani and hubby know how much I love them and that I am nobody without them.
2. Buy a Chanel dress.
3. Go bungee-jumping and sky-diving, twice each!
4. Travel New Delhi to NYC first class.
5. Go out for a Sunday bruch with Rahul Gandhi (I think he is cool)!
6. Go out for coffee with some special ex-boyfriends.
7. Try my luck at Las Vegas clubs.
8. Buy two labrador and pug pups.
9. Have gol gappas, chaat, aloo parathas and roadside Chinese till I can't breathe anymore.
10. Call up friends with whom my friendship ended very bitterly and try and remember the good old days.
'Work in Kamal Rashid Khan's Deshdrohi Part 2'
Amit Purohit, 31, from Kolkata, has the following in mind:
1. Quit my day job and take my wife for a second honeymoon to the same place again. Will recreate the magic.
2. Buy a small farm and model it after Karen von Blixen-Finecke's farm in Out of Africa.
3. Visit my grandmother's birthplace in Pakistan.
4. Take up guitar lessons. Would regret it for the rest of my entire afterlife if I did not pick up a musical instrument.
5. Work in Kamal Rashid Khan's Deshdrohi Part 2. What is the point of living if you don't make fun of yourself?
6. Try to persuade Sachin Tendulkar for a dinner with my family. If not, then will do a sit-down in front of his house.
7. Spend money on getting my DNA mapped and find out who are the big names in politics, media and entertainment to whom I am distantly related. Will feel important.
8. Meet up with girls I adored when I was a teenager to catch up. I was not a heart-breaker, but it still won't hurt to ask!
9. Sit back and write a book on what I would do if knew that I was going to die in the next two years.
10. On the day the world is going to end, I will charter a plane to take me high up in the sky and then do a free fall.
'Make my curly hair straight forever!'
Here are Mumbaiite Kavita Morparia's plans:
1. Have twins.
2. Dance like crazy with my non-dancing husband in public, expressing our love to each other.
3. Send my parents on a tour to Europe.
4. Gift my mum-in-law something in diamonds.
5. Fly my in-laws to some destination out of India.
6. Enjoy the scary rides in Disneyland Paris with my husband without any fear.
7. Become thin very soon, wear all the clothes I always wanted to try and stay slim till the end.
8. Buy a car and a house.
9. Take my husband on a surprise holiday to Amsterdam.
10. Make my curly hair straight forever.
'Steal the Kohinoor Diamond and bring it back to India'
Nishant Dey Purkayastha, 21, from Kolkata, has a few interesting ideas too:
1. Represent India in an ODI match against Australia, in which I will open with Sachin Tendulkar and we'll thrash Brett Lee and co all around the park and score 500 runs in 50 overs. Both of us will score double centuries, but I'll score a run more than Sachin!
2. Steal the Kohinoor Diamond and bring it back to India.
3. Learn how to ride a bicycle (yes -- I'm 21 yrs old but I can't ride one!).
4. Declare in front of my family that I'm gay -- and after half an hour, show them a dictionary and say that gay is just another word for happy.
5. Watch a Manchester United vs Liverpool match at Anfield in which Manchester United will win by a single goal and the winning goal will be scored in injury-time by Michael Owen at the Kop end (well, I am a sports freak).
6. Beat up a professor named Swagatam Das who gave me a 'D' in his subject in my first year in college.
7. Buy a Formula One car and drive it through the streets of India at over 200 kmph.
8. Spend a few nights in the palace hotels of Udaipur.
9. Meet Sidhu and ask him the secret of his laughter.
10. Tell Bill Gates that I sell pirated Microsoft Windows CDs.
Stay tuned for a lot more responses coming up! And let us know the 10 things that would make it to your priority list -- mail us at getahead@rediff.co.in (subject line: '10 things I'd do before I die') along with your name, age and contact details!