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3 years to live: 'Obama got it, I want a Nobel too!'
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
Here is what Joseph Cardoza, 33 from Mumbai wants to do:
1. Ask Rakhi Sawant to teach the politicians how to talk and ask Govinda to teach them how to dress up.
2. Write a new Constitutional law to wipe out all the political parties and have just three major parties, like secular, non-secular and communist.
3. Make it compulsory for all the devotional houses such as Tirupati etc to gift one house on each day to the poor with no houses.
4. Whip the government officials on their backside for not doing their work faster and failing to do their duties.
5. Award myself a Nobel Prize -- if Obama can get one, I should be given one too!
6. Make it compulsory for all companies to let individuals go on holiday for one month in one year -- this will also drive the economy. Or reduce the working hours to 6 hours instead of 8 working hours.
7. Recycle the Fiat Padmini taxis into toilet dustbins or drainage cover lids.
8. Plead to citizens of India to keep the country clean and green -- no littering, no spitting.
9. Free education and medication for all, especially the girl child.
10. Go on an adventure, sightseeing around the globe.
'To spend one day on the border with the Indian armed forces'
This is what H Laksminarayan from Nagpur has in mind:
1. To go back to my first day of primary school at the Kendriya Vidyalaya in Bangalore, on the last bench with two boys -- Rajesh, Shankar -- and one gal -- Deepa -- on both sides.
2. To spend a day at Pathankot Defence Hospital where my sister was born to celebrate a sibling with joy (rather than the dejection I had felt at the thought of sharing)!
3. To spend half an hour on a lunch break in my school days, when 10 minutes were spent on gobbling the dabba, 15 climbing the mango trees on the other side of the grounds and 5 walking to the gate to buy ice golas with a ten paise coin.
4. To relive one week of our final engineering college days and pre-final studies at my friend's house, where our group of four spent nights together tearing the thick engineering books into four to study in parallel. We would jump the villa gate locked by our parents to get to the tea stall a kilometre away. I would also like to relive the day of the results and feel the sense of achievement.
5. To spend one week in Ooty, at the villa where me and my wife spent our first holiday together in the coldest season.
6. To fulfill the dream of my parents of seeing Singapore by taking them across to this place of beauty, perhaps sending them with my children.
7. To spend one day and night with the needy people of Sudan and share our happiness with them, as well as digest their concerns.
8. To go around the world's oceanic route by air with my children to reflect upon the marvels of science and the changing phases of sunlight within hours.
9. To spend one day in the role of municipal councillor of our city and break rules that can pave ways for the investments to flow in from the US without red tape.
10. To spend one day on the border with the Indian armed forces and experience bullet fire in reality, share their roti sabji and spend the night in their bunker, sharing jokes about the enemy and apni ghar wali.
'Attend a Victoria's Secret fashion show'
Here are 20-year-old Guwahati resident Ankit Bhatla's plans:
1. Attend a Victoria's Secret fashion show.
2. Go to Las Vegas with my friends and have a night out like in the movie Hangover.
3. Travel to the International Space Station and have a space walk.
4. Propose to the girl I like in the Jules Verne Restaurant atop the Eiffel Tower.
5. Become the Lok Sabha Speaker and fire all the MPs who create a ruckus in the house.
6. Become a professor at IIT Guwahati for one semester.
7. Become part of an NGO and raise awareness on the cleanliness of our cities.
8. Take my parents on a tour of East India.
9. Apologise to all those whom I may have hurt, on national TV.
10.Go on a date with Kareena Kapoor.
'Obey my wife!'
And here is what Sandip Dey, 32, wants to do:
1. Watch India win the 2011 Cricket World Cup.
2. Weep uncontrollably at my best friend's wedding.
3. Slam Chetan Bhagat for his next novel -- 4 paragraphs in a day: What you've got do at an investment bank.
4. Sing a song for my father-in-law.
5. Take a snap of my next door gym --the great institute I never made it to.
6. Learn to drive a bus.
7. Feature as an extra in the next James Cameron sci-fi.
8. Obey my wife.
9. Declare a war against pigs!
10. Wait for 2012.