Aparna Sajeendran
Team MNP
For the very first time, the Fun D’ Mentalists organized the “Minute To Win It” competition here at Molecular Connections which was a huge success, with the MNP-WCP team walking away as proud winners. An unexpected bigger bonus for the winners was scoring a bowling outing with our CEO Jignesh Bhate as a prize for the well-played and deserved win. The outing was joined in by few of the team “cheerleaders” as we call it, who supported the team up till the very end, as well as members of the Fun D’ Mentalists.
As soon as the clock struck 6 pm on our monitors on 19th March, systems were quickly shut down and everyone headed out in groups to Amoeba arcade in Jayanagar. As we went ahead with a quick head count and routine picking out the right sized shoes, we decided to have a little healthy competition between 2 teams; one lead by Krishna and the other lead by Bharat sir. To raise the stakes a bit, it was agreed that the losing team would have to treat the winners to lunch. Hence began a thrilling and rather unpredictable game of bowling. Some of us were complete newbies to the game being absolutely clueless of how to play, while some were almost professionals and others had no idea how good they were until they actually started playing. What ensued thereafter was a lot of strategies, team huddles, shrieks, cheering, strikes, spares and naturally the most of them all; gutter balls.
The top 2 players were unarguably Chethan and Jignesh sir, who aimed either strikes ( literally echoing through the arcade as the pins were struck) or spares and settled for nothing less. They amazed us with their bowling angles and techniques, managing to score points over a whopping 100! For a good two hours, each of us just indulged wholly in a power-packed evening, in a way reliving the days of zero worry and responsibilities. The fact that we all had work the next day seemed to have completely escaped all our minds. Imagine our surprise when we realized that it was a tie between both teams! In the end, it came down to taking a vote if we wanted another game or wind up with ice cream. Quite shockingly most including the foodies of the group opted for another game, but everyone eventually liked the idea of ice cream better, to cool off. It didn’t take much thought to decide that Corner house was the best option.
The evening ended with a lot of ice cream flavors, laughs and hilarious discussions regarding our respective bowling performances. What an evening it was!
