New bowling ball~

Well, like wat the title says, i bought a bowling ball on wed.

It was crazy i should say. Coz although i really like bowling, n thought of getting one, i always find tat its kinda extravagant to buy one. But then on this night, with two fellow bears pulling me into the shapping wagon, i complied to their request n got myself a fiery red ball. :)

For the first time, i will be playing finger tipped bowling. Will some proper but super short advises from the pro shop guy. His name is kenneth n his shop is Ken Pro Shop at marina south, Victor's bowl. Know kenneth from my friend john. According to john, kenneth's skill in drilling is very good. His shop is more like catering to the professional level, coz he dun have much balls for amteurs like me. lol. So we ordered three balls one shot. I wanted to hessitate a bit to get a better offer, but he seems firm on his offer n almost wanted to keep the ball that i wanted. T_T.

Being the only lady around, xiaomei got her ball first. Her design was exactly the same as mine since there is only a design for red. Drilling only took 30mins, that is including the measurements he took n the other misc stuffs. He conduct a crash course for xiaomei too. Where i also eagerly listen. Seems easy while listening to him teaching xiaomei. Little did i know that its SUPER difficult to do it actually!!!
Xiaomei got her ball and she start to play. We had to wait a while longer coz he have another two more customer which he attend to before drilling ours. So over at the bowling lanes, xiaomei was playing. We could teach her much since we also dun know the proper ways. Luckily kenneth assistant came over and gave us some pointers. Taught us the four n five step walk thru, and also how to hook the ball.

Finally its my turn to drill the ball. Kenneth used funny equipments to measure my fingers. N only to realised that my ring finger is not tat flexible. It cannot bend on the very first joint. Maybe its coz i had a deep cut when i was young. I rem that i was holding the lava lamp out of curiosity. not to realise that its actually a two part item. I did not put the lamp in position after i was kinda shock about it. n it dropped to the floor n i cut myself while trying to salvage it. The cut was deep coz the blood was like flowing out, machiam like running tap. Raised it up n held it with my hands n towel. After jus a few seconds the towel was all bloody red. It took my almost 3-4 mins before the blood stop. Maybe not much blood left then. lol. Realised kenneth took long time to measure my fingers. My thumb actually got a very big bone, less meat. So he actually make the thumb hole slightly oval to accomodate the thumb in the correct form. Nice~ In a jiffy, the holes are drilled n the ball is ready to roll!!!

Tried my first few strokes of hooking. Then i realised its not so easy!!! N the "longkang" have been throughly cleaned by my ball. Some more the end of the "longkang" have a raised-up. So if my ball roll down, it will hit the raised-up n get a bad knock. After more n more knocks, my heart hurts whenever it hits it... And after one game, i was totally sianz... coz i didn't produce the spin i wanted n i talked as though it easy. Sigh.... so ashamed of myself... Well, after three games, i think i m only satisfied in only 5 of my throws. Now very gian to play again. lol

Will take a photo of my ball next time. :)