Arn's Blog: Of Monthsaries, Bowling balls and Happy Thoughts

Overtime work + bowling + dinner

Project team building? Nah, It's actually our agenda to celebrate our MONTHSARY! :D It was't like this is what we had in mind for our ideal date but with our workload that time, we didn't have much choice. It was a busy week but we refused to reschedule and celebrate it another day. Besides, we've been aching to go bowling for a looooong time.

So it's Jaye vs Arn. Sweet little Jaye against Herculian man Arn who outweighs her by... much! This had "NO CONTEST" all over it and pretty sure it would be over fast. We picked the lane, put on our shoes and picked our bowling balls. I even taught Jaye had to pick out a ball. Honestly, I wanted to keep the score close so as to not embarrass my honey.

We rolled the first frame and immediately I know I've been had. I'm your typical office guy bowler - no professional form, capable of hitting pins, no spins, occassional strike. Our first game was like watching Sanjaya beating the crap out of Batista. I would roll the ball and hit the 2 left most pins. Jaye would get a strike. I get 2 more pins and Jaye would shoot a spare.

No fair.

I even tried to imitate the guy beside me (who had a funny release) to no avail (went straight to the gutter). I tried teasing her and even surprised her after she released the ball and STILL rolled out a strike.

She won the first frame by a few points... Ok, ok she won by a lot more than that... Ok ok ok fine, the score was so bad that if there was a referree, he would have stopped it by the 3rd round and award a TKO victory to Jaye. She won by 55.

The second game started with Jaye rolling a gutter ball and walks back smiling at me. Yea right. I have a change in my strategy too since I know Jaye's weakness - she laughs a lot. The next few frames were more about me dancing in the lane, doing a Johhny Bravo flex after releasing the ball, basically just make a fool out of myself. With Jaye laughing all night, it kept the score close enough for me to pull an upset win in the end.

We wanted to bowl a third game but decided to have dinner instead. What a great night! It felt so good not to think about work for a few hours and just enjoy life.