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10 things before I die: 'Borrow Dr Mallya's yacht!'

We asked readers what they would do if they had only three years to live life to the fullest? The contest is now closed, but before we announce the winners, here is one last set of interesting responses!

Here is what 25-year-old Rohit J has in mind:

1. Sky dive.

2. Direct a short film and ensure my folks get all the money it makes.

3. Cycle on the Great Wall of China.

4. Sing a song composed by me in front of 10,000 people.

5. Drink in the middle of the ocean with my friends on a yacht borrowed from Dr Mallya.

6. Visit Neverland.

7. Spend an hour with the leaders of our country.

8. Buy a dog and call him Pablo.

9. Play one match with the Indian team against Pakistan.

10. Plan my funeral.

'Figure out abstract art'

Huma Siddiqui, 21, from Lucknow, wants to:

1. Throw out the idiot box; enjoy a quieter, real life (without watching reel life).

2. Figure out abstract art.

3. Learn how to speak Arabic fluently.

4. Swim (and get friendly) with dolphins!

5. Exhibit my paintings in an art gallery.

6. Spend a rainy day with a cuddly cat, hot coffee and cheesecake (purrrfect, I say!).

7. Meet 'The One'!

8. Understand how Jade Goody must've felt seeing imminent death before her eyes.

9. Visit holy places and thank The Almighty for the wonderful life that I've been blessed with.

10. Tell the world -- "In the end, it doesn't even matter!"

'Become a model and feature on FTV!'

Here's what Prasanna from Bangalore has to say:

10 things I'd do before I die:

1. Become a model and do a ramp walk in one of the shows that comes on FTV.

2. Become education minister of Tamil Nadu and force a law that all schools should teach Hindi and Tamil apart from English as 2nd and 3rd languages upto Class 12.

3. Take a trip to Amsterdam and have fun for a week

4. Direct a beautiful love story.

5. Act in a Mani Ratnam and Kamal Hassan movie.

6. Live with my ex-girlfriend for a week like if we both got married to each other.

7. Go to a war zone and experience the pain and suffering there along with the people.

8. Work as a software engineer and at least write a 10-line program by myself.

9. Learn Hindustani/ Carnatic music and classical dance.

10. Become the editor of a successful magazine and publish all my experiences in an article called 'Only truth'.

'Set a new Guinness Record for 'Longest Willful Sleep''

And finally, here is 31-year-old Gurgaon resident Navneet Singh's wishlist:

Here is my list of things to do:

1. To have fresh fruit for breakfast. Fruit from my own garden, which I would pick myself during a morning walk on my 10-acre farmhouse.

2. Riding on a bike from J&K to Kanyakumari, unravelling the beauty lying within each part of our nation.

3. To play a villain in a movie and be dreaded to the extent of wiping out the name of Gabbar Singh from the memory of all small kids.

4. To stand on the peak of a mountain with hands outstretched, head towards the sky, rain drizzling slowly on my face when the last moment is announced and take a plunge into oblivion.

5. To sue all philosophers of this world for pre-birth plagiarism, as they have secretly managed to read my mind before my birth and wrote all my philosophies by their name.

6. To ban usage of lifts by all fat people, I would make it mandatory for them to use the staircase (I am ready to bear the wrath of their curses for their own good).

7. Would tear apart all calendars, destroy all clocks so that I can live every moment of those 3 years without the fear of D-day approaching.

8. Would write the most romantic poem ever and dedicate it to my wife, while sitting in a library (undoubtedly, Galib, Blake, Wordsworth, Shelley and Keats on the shelf of the library would provide necessary inspiration!).

9. To ban the requirement of passports, visas for entering any country. When the Lord Almighty has given the entire universe to us for exploration, then why should humans draw boundaries?

10. Doing all that I want to do, I am sure I will be deprived of much-needed sleep and would love to dream day and night for 100 hours at a stretch, setting a new Guinness Record for 'Longest Willful Sleep'.