Here is what Soumya Shrikant would do:

1. Go to Switzerland.

2. Buy a very big house.

3. Spend quality time with my mom,dad, brother, husband and son.

4. Donate to orpahanages and old-age homes.

5. Become slim very soon and wear all designer clothes.

6. Quit my job and rest forever.

7. Go shopping and buy whatever I want for myself and for others also, whom I wish to gift.

8. Stay at least for a week in a beach resort in Goa.

9. Read all the novels which I have missed reading.

10. Sleep and sleep and sleep...

Mohan Natarajan's to-do list includes:

1. Backpacking around the globe.

2. Getting rid of all obligations.

3. Spending, not saving.

4. Educating at least 100 people.

5. Resolving as many conflicts as I can.

6. Reading one book daily.

7. Watching one film daily.

8. Sleeping as little as I can.

9. Living for myself, not for others.

10. Being deliriously happy.

And here is what Maxim B John, a 29-year-old software engineer from Kollam in Kerala wants to do:

1. Quit my job as an engineer, go back to Kerala and start farming on my land.

2. Buy a kayak so that I can do kayaking every morning at Ashtamudi Lake, which is roughly 200 metres from my home.

3. Send my parents for a month's holiday to Singapore so that they can enjoy travelling to a foreign country on an international flight.

4. Try different types of vegetarian food every day. I will be cooking food in different international styles by referring to different cooking Websites.

5. Watch all the 100 movies on the 'Best 100 movies of all time' list.

6. Learn the magic of the flute so that I can play it while sitting on the shores of Ashtamudi Lake.

7. Go back to Mumbai again in 2012 for a week to "enjoy" the journey in suburban trains.

8. Learn Japanese so that I can call Miki-san (a Japanese teacher who works with me) on her birthday and wish her in Japanese. We share the same birthday so that usually we say "Same to you" when the other person calls first.

9. Write and submit enough Linux kernel source code patches at work so that I will get the feeling of "immortality".

10. Go to Goa with all my friends for the final bash.

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!