With famous parents in Samboy Lim and Darlene Berberabe, was there pressure for Jamie Lim to excel, too?

Southeast Asian Games karate gold medalist Jamie Lim is one multi-rounded person.

On top of being a karate champion, she graduated with a Math degree and was summa cum laude in the University of the Philippines, and is now in London for her graduate degree in data analytics.

While she has earned her achievements in her own right, she will be the first to acknowledge her parents' influence in her life.

Her parents, of course, are basketball great Samboy Lim and lawyer Darlene Berberabe.

"Ako 'yung very lucky na I got that from them, but I don't know how they did it. I didn't feel any pressure like thinking about it," Jamie recalled on 'Surprise Guest with Pia Arcangel.'

'Like looking on the outside, it looks like I should be pressured because they're so amazing, both of them in their fields. Honestly, growing up, hindi talaga nagma-manifest 'yung galing ko kahit saan like in school, I was so average. In karate, I kept losing [at the] start but they still didn't make me feel pressured even though it was a very long time."

("I am the one who's lucky that I got that from them. I don't know how they did it. I didn't feel any pressure like thinking about it. Like looking on the outside, it looks like I should be pressured because they're so amazing, both of them in their fields. Honestly, growing up, my talent was not manifesting like in school, I was so average. In karate, I kept losing [at the] start but they still didn't make me feel pressured even though it was a very long time.")

For Jamie, it was important that her parents just believed in her potential.

"Three years ako sa karate, sa school I was just like average or even like sobrang mediocre lang. But they just found a way to just keep pushing me upward and inspiring me with their words and even though it was like a long journey, they didn't give up doing that. Or they kept believing kahit walang signs, and I think maganda lang 'yung pag raise nila sa akin because somehow it opened up, even though it took so long and it was effective I think," she added.

(It was three years when I was mediocre in karate but they just found a way to just keep pushing me upward and inspiring me with their words and even though it was like a long journey, they didn't give up doing that. Or they kept believing even though there are no signs. I think they raised me well because somehow, it opened up even though it took so long and it was effective, I think.)

Jamie also recalled a time how her parents talked to her during tough matches.

"My mom and my dad, both would talk to me. My dad would be so supportive, like every time I cried because of losing, he would say it's okay, just keep trying harder, keep working, because it's normal. And he knows what it's like to compete and to lose or win. So it was very simple. There is no secret to it," she said.

"But then it's just, I think, their constant support and inspiration to me, it's just pushing me forward like, nararamdaman ko rin 'yung love and support nila. So I get the power from them even though I lose."

(But then it's just, I think, their constant support and inspiration to me, it's just pushing me forward like, I can feel their love and support. So I get the power from them even though I lose.)

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—JMB, GMA Integrated News