Bowling Tournament...

It's finally here.. the IPG Law Society Bowling Tournament... After dropping in on my newly-in-from-Bangkok relatives for lunch, I'm off to college to pick Parvin, then off to Penang Bowl to practice for the tournament starting at 4. We start off OK, me with about 115 pinfalls, Parvin with 100+, but our playing quality declines gradually over the 3 games we played before i had to leave to pick Prem and Joyce up from the IPG hostel. Once i'm back, I pay the counter for another game, and get my game shoes on again. Brilliant!! I score my highest ever bowling score! The score cumulative is as follows:

17-35-52-60-79-88-97-127-157-184

I also got my first 4-Baggers(4 strikes in a row) in this game.. It was a high for me, and the boast topic for Parvin (See Rags got 4-Baggers!!)

Soon enough the tournament got underway, somehow Bubu hoodwinked me into taking part in the singles as well as the doubles. Aiks. Julien also became a last minute entrant, along with Shiwen. I shouldn't have laned with them, i couldn't keep as close an eye as i would have liked on the higher scorers... I thought it was a knockout system going, I wouldn't have taken it so easily if i knew I was bowling in the thing itself.. the scores from the 2 rounds we played were the scores. I bowled an average of 110+, placing me about 5th. Dissapointing, I'm sure I coulda and woulda done better if I was better informed. Moving swiftly into the doubles rounds, I didn't want to be the first to bowl, so I waited on the Chinese girls in the next lane go first. Coincidently, the guy who got 2nd in the singles was paired with a friend in the lane on the other side of me. The first game was dissapointing. It would've seemed in the beginning that I was headed for a 140 game, but Parvin's low scores kinda threw me off. You wouldn't believe the frames he was missing. He averaged about 2 pinfalls per frame for the first 2 frames, gradually getting more accurate, but still nowhere near what he should've been scoring. Lack of hope lowered my scores tremendously, but Parvin managed a few strikes close to the end of the round, and we both scored 100+. This gave me a boost for the 2nd game, and thank God, Parvin raised his game and scored 120+. My score the 2nd round was 146, which is to date, my 3rd highest score. So it's a 1st and 3rd personal placing day for me, as well as a 3rd and 5th in college, as our second round boosted us above the competition to 3rd in the doubles. I still think we shoulda made 2nd but for our abysmal first round. Anyway, it's all cool, but i realise this'll be the last IPG bowling tournament i can take part in(I'll be in UK next year, hopefully). Here's to hoping the BAS holds a tourny before i go... Cheers guys...