3 years to live: 'Bring about global disarmament'

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

Here's what Pallavi Mishra from New Delhi would do:

1. Become the Prime Minister of India tomorrow. Effectively reform the functioning of the state machinery. Hold talks with world leaders and bring about disarmament.

2. Travel all over India. Visit the little-explored places.

3. Employ a chef who is adept at cooking all dishes ever created and creating new ones. He would have to be the best pastry chef ever.

4. Hold public gatherings all around the globe and re-establish people's faith in the sanctity of life.

5. Tour the world with my parents.

6. Finish reading all the books on my bookshelf and my parents' (that would include reading the newer additions made
to them whenever we visit the book fair or a book store).

7. Date the best men in the world.

8. Learn Carnatic music, Hindustani music and Western classical (vocal) and become a renowned singer.

9. Persuade enthusiastic young men and women of integrity to join Indian politics and flush out the older, corrupt lot (but retaining the good ones).

10. Slow down climate change by coercing all entities into using green technology.

1. Pay off all my loans as I don't want to perish being in debt.

2. Complete my MBA course on fast-track so that I can become the first postgraduate in our family before the world ends.

3. Buy and accumulate gold as much as possible as gold will be the universal currency post-apocalypse.

4. Improve aquatic skills and start spending at least few hours daily in water as a preparation to survive in impending Water world.

5. Start practicing yoga, pranayama, martial arts, etc, to prepare the mind and body to endure the inevitable situation.

6. Stop paying premiums of all those various insurance policies that were sold to me by foxy sales persons.

7. Somehow render all those deadly nuclear weapons useless so that future civilisations can be safe.

8. Try out military rule for next three years and give complacent politicians a run for their lives.

9. Spread enough goodwill and love around so that everyone can live their last days peacefully.

10. Stop taking these doomsday predictions and soothsayers seriously and wait for 2012 to get over as this World is too beautiful to end like this.

Next Suraj Aggarwal from New Delhi sends in his list:

1. Go camping to the South Pole and watch the Aurora Borealis lights.

2. Go on a Tanzania safari in Africa.

3. Last time I skydived from 14,000 ft, I would like to break that record.

4. Go paragliding in the Grand Canyon.

5. I've had enough bungee jumping on the ground. I would like to jump from a chopper into the sea.

6. Go cycling on the Great Wall of China.

7. Go scuba diving in Costa Rica.

8. On a random day pick the next available train, get down at an unknown station and stay there for a week.

9. Date Taylor Swift, Megan Fox, Scarlette Johansson, Rihanna and Asin.

10. Go to Russia and orbit off into space for a day.

Next, Ravindra Khairnar from Nasik shares his to-do list:

1. I would take my wife on world tour by cruise ship.

2. I would like to meet with ex-President of India Mr APJ Kalam.

3. I would like complete my PhD.

4. I would like to go for a long drive with my wife in a Mercedes.

5. I would like to shop in Dubai Shopping Festival.

6. I would buy a laptop.

7. I would like to buy a luxurious bungalow.

8. I would like to arrange a pfor my best friends in a 5-star hotel.

9. I would like to go to the moon.

10. I would like to spend a week in Al-Burj Dubai hotel with my wife.