BRO STANFORDIAN!

wel wel wel!

Finally! he gave me the shock of a lifetime!, MY brother.

He just called up few days back... afternoon... somethin like 3:00pm... 

"Hey bro! can you check your mail plz... "

i asked "whadup? whad happnd?"

"Just check! stupid!"

**Hanged up***

and languidly i crawled to open my mailbox and voila! Theres this mail and it reads in bold, Times roman... "NTU - STANFORD SCHOLARSHIP"

(Aah! i lost my sleep in like a jolt. What could it be?)

2 mins and am readin it again and again and my state is in total disbelief...

It was an admission cum scholarship offer in the MS program (Environmental Sciences) jointly offered by the Stanford-NTU(singapore) university.

A fully paid  scholarship including airfare charges, he had bagged the lottery of a lifetime. 

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BUT before you are just dazzeled by all of it... just as i was a few moments back... lemme add that it wasnt easy for him...

i have seen it. and he has experienced it.

it was just a few years back...

class 12th... a below average percentage...

medical entrances... no result... years dropped... no result....

with a heavy heart and painful start he had embarked on his BE in the far south... Chennai.. in some obscure university.

Spendin days away from family and doin a course (biotechnology) which wasnt exactly his choice... 

i guess its all history for him now. 

Hope he has a really great time ahead in Stanford and then at NTU.

BRO! PROUD OF YOU!