A fun day !!!

A delicious chocolate cake, tiring whirlyball, killings at laser tag, crash-testing at go-karting and gutter-ball at bowling. Wow..what a memorable day was yesterday! Yes, it was the day of my team event at Powerplay. After finishing some work for the day I was all ready for the team lunch as well as the team event yesterday afternoon at 11:30. Brian, Jared, Sheng and Matt opted for driving their own cars and leave from Powerplay. So Tim volunteered to drive Barton, Devon, Evan and me in his car. So we all finally left around 11:45 I guess and since Tim did not know the way I told him tht I could use the BB I carried to help him navigate. But the fun part was when we reached the destination, it turned out to be a house :-P. They had constructed a house there and the map data was not updated..Powerplay was behind the fence of that house ;-). So after a funny start we finally reached Powerplay and the first thing we did was to go towards buffet. I am sure including me all were starving as it was way past our lunch times.

From Left : Matt, Jared, Evan, Devon, Barton [team lead], Tim, Sheng, myself and Brian

Lunch : Though I had a choice of cheese pizza, hard-shell taco, mashed potatoes, mac n cheese and salad [ wonder y I am a vegetarian sometimes when I miss other delicious choices in front of me :-( ], I went for salad and potatoes with some chips and salsa. For past few days I have been a bit calorie conscious and think twice before I eat anything. I am not worried if I would put on weight, but still wanted to monitor myself for a month or so. I then had a delicious chocolate cake topped with fudge and almonds. That was the best part of the lunch I had..something delicious finally!

WhirlyBall : For those who donno wats whirlyball..lemme tell u about it first..It combines lacrosse, hockey and basketball with bumper cars. You’ll use hand-held scoops to propel whiffle balls at your scoring target. In a team of five, and with the help of a professional referee, you’ll have a bang-up time trying to outscore the competition. I was in the yellow team initially with my number being 9. Brian was our team captain. Now he was a good captain and scored twice. But still we did not win. It was a game of 30 mins with 2 points per shoot. We ended up being 6-12. Jared from the red team scored four times. He was playing really good. The second half, I was in the red team and we again lost.. bid deal..it was really fun and I can tell now..along with fun it gave us all body aches.

Laser-Tag : Now, this is one game everyone would have heard. I have played it 4 or 5 times before and just love the part I could run a lot, sweat a lot and most of all kill a lot! I was in blue team with the name Jester (Would have luved it to be Fiona..guess I dint have a choice) and scored around 1600 with 35 hits. I was pretty good killing every member of the red team other than Jared..I think he was one fella who killed me most number of times..Overall was really fun except tht I was wearing a full sleeve sweater and burning inside. Took a wrong decision to dress up without realizing how much I would sweat..

Go-Kart : Ahem..Ahem...Now this is something I wont forget coz it gave me bruises over my body. I was in car number 15..n the car was in my favorite color blueeeee. Once on the track..we drove really fast. It was my first time and I did not realize how much fun it is and at the same time how much one has a chance for injury. I wad pretty okee at the start..but then around the finish..I took a bad turn at a curve and crashed the wall with my team lead crashing in from behind first time and then at the next curve Brian crashed in from behind. Now me crashing the wall was bad ..but after these 2 crashed me..my left wrist started aching badly..I never show my pain outside so pretty much said okee to all the guys..dint wanna worry them. I slowly realized my whole left arm was paining as if its sprained. even some portions of waist n thighs starting paining..thought wld be a small thing n ignored it at tht moment where all I could think of is to have fun.

Bowling : Last but not least..we played bowling. Brian n I wanted to bowl and asked Evan n Tim to join us. We were 2 teams: Evan and Team ; Brian n I( happened tht we teams were actually real roomies at work ). I started off pretty decently with 9 n 8 in first 2 shots, but then I had 4 consecutive gutter-balls..bad day I guess..It was my 3rd time playing bowling..and supposedly I was better than this earlier..with just one or two gutter-balls. It so happened it goes straight in the middle for 3/4th distance and then spins and goes to gutter right near the pins. Watever its is I played badly yesterday..My last two shots were fine..with a 9,7 and 7 ( made me feel better I dint end with gutter-balls). but to compensate my bad play, Brian had 4 strikes and a spare..He had 2 gutter-balls on his 1st two shot..so we pretty much balanced each other. Thanks to him our team scored something..I was 40 and he was 103. Meanwhile Evan and Tim were playing so well..Evan had lots of strikes and Tim had lots of spares. Evan topped with 119. Overall was good fun.

It was almost 3:30 and so we decided to leave coz its way past the time we were supposed to be there. Everyone other than Barton, Tim and I came to office to continue to work for a while. Whoa! A really memorable day and I had a greatttttt time!

P. S What I thought was a small pain wasn't small afterall. Went home and found I had 5 bruises..kinda red blood clots.