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Hello, YAMA! - Bags a prize in comedy skit contest
Holy, Moly! It was just a week away!
"Well, give it a shot. One sleepless night and nothing much to loose", I said to myself as I was watching some silly show on TV, remembering the upcoming skit contest.
So, fired up Baraha to jott down some funny lines and started typing in... somewhat... whatchamacallit - a brain dump? After a few iterations of read-rewrite-read-rewrite, it started to look not too bad. Next morning, reached out to the phone and made calls to a few of my good friends who are known to be 'tarales', aka talented & totally game for silly stuff, anytime :).
There you go and here comes the trophy moment! Congratulations Jay, Raghuram Setty, Vish for jumping in and for your great performances! Enjoy a few snaps from the show.
"Well, give it a shot. One sleepless night and nothing much to loose", I said to myself as I was watching some silly show on TV, remembering the upcoming skit contest.
So, fired up Baraha to jott down some funny lines and started typing in... somewhat... whatchamacallit - a brain dump? After a few iterations of read-rewrite-read-rewrite, it started to look not too bad. Next morning, reached out to the phone and made calls to a few of my good friends who are known to be 'tarales', aka talented & totally game for silly stuff, anytime :).
There you go and here comes the trophy moment! Congratulations Jay, Raghuram Setty, Vish for jumping in and for your great performances! Enjoy a few snaps from the show.
An Incredible Story!
Last year, at the end of the year high school athletic meet in 2007, when he fell short by 9 seconds in the race, he had said with a firm voice, "I'll do it before I graduate, mom! No matter what!"
Actually, at that time I cared less about it. Well, like any other desi-mom, I too associated a bigger importance to academics than sports until the awards bestowed upon him! For I simply believed what can a pulchar-kid like him do among those tough all american boys? I wondered how to impress my priorities as the right track over the running track!
Actually, at that time I cared less about it. Well, like any other desi-mom, I too associated a bigger importance to academics than sports until the awards bestowed upon him! For I simply believed what can a pulchar-kid like him do among those tough all american boys? I wondered how to impress my priorities as the right track over the running track!
A few months passed by, even before I realized and quickly. I could see a growing pressure inside of him being a high school senior, as this was going to be the last athletic meet of the season of his last year of high school career. Additionally, more discipline was required to balance it all out, being an elected co-captain of the varsity track and field team. I saw him determined and running every single day, rain or shine and really working hard towards breaking a personal record. So, I kind of felt he will get there. Quite frankly, I did not anticipate a daunting quadruple in one single athletic event!
The great moment arrived as if it came running to me and so fast! My eyes filled with joy of tears as my son bagged series of awards at the award ceremony dinner banquet. Palo Alto High School named a lifetime achievement award after him called 'The Alok Subbarao Award" which goes to the most inspirational athlete of the year who shows EXCEPTIONAL SPORTSMANSHIP in any sports. What an honor and a pride moment, all the hard work paid off! Alok dedicated the award to his inspiration coach Jeff Billing who simply believed in him.
Some one asked me at the award ceremony, "what do you feed him??" .
"Pure vegetarian" I said, with a big smile, "... and he feeds on his own what you call determination!" :-)
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