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Gutter ball update - 13/10/2007

We did go for a bowling outing after all. After all the trouble of organizing, coordinating, canceling, re-proposing, and arranging of schedules. K had ultimately decided to bowl with SC & GZ, me and Tempest, despite her initial reservations about going out alone with 2 other couples. Haha, she said she was left with no choice. All her other friends are not interested in bowling.

None of us are regular bowlers, and K was a first-timer. Thence, being the more frequent bowler, Tempest took upon himself to guide me and K along. "Lock your elbow, swing your shoulders, move one leg behind and loosen up the back, don't stand too stiff and upright, roll the ball not throw the ball, look at the arrows, take aim with your thumb and fingers in parallel to the lines and arrows..." That was about all I remembered from the 2 hour session.

The first few frames were horrible. The ball either went into the gutter before it even reached the middle of the lane, or rolled near the sides precariously to hit only one or two pins. It was only after a few more 'rolls' that each of our scores improved.

To further increase our scores, we took to picking the 'lucky' brown ball which kinda lost its magic touch after being picked by bowlers from the neighbouring lane, imagining our most hated colleagues and bosses and people plastered on the 10 pins, stamping on the floor, standing more to the left or right side so that the ball will not roll into the gutter easily etc.

In terms of score, the big winner is probably Tempest, followed closely by GZ, then SC and myself, and K. From less than 5o in the first game to slightly over 90 in the second, i thought that was a huge improvement! :-)

In terms of value to money ratio, SC was the biggest winner no doubt! In normal circumstances as applied to the rest of us, the bar would lower itself to clear the fallen pins before allowing the bowler to do a second throw. For SC, the bar would not lower till she was done with two throws! Thus effectively, she got twice as many throws as each one of us!

Conclusion: Fun. We shall go again next month! If we ever get past the trouble of organizing it.

posted by slingwoof @ 10/17/2007 10:09:00 PM