Ambidextrous!

Well the other day we had a great day at office...or rather out of it! day started with taking a couple of folks from India to our factory, then we went for team lunch followed by bowling! Now, it has been ages since I went bowling...there was a time in engg when we used to frequent the mecca of Jahndus...BoCoS!! The next time you are in Bombay, I would recommend it as a must-go place :-D
Anyways, back to the story(?!), I had expected myself to be rusty...but boy was I out of form! Not one throw was going as I intended it to! Somehow labored to a 91 in the first game! :-( The next one I thought would be better, but the nightmare continued! I tried all kinds of balls, but nothing seemed to work...in fact ended up hurting my thumb in the process! And towards the end I gave up and switched to bowling with my left hand! Now, I have always wanted to be ambidextrous, and I do use my mouse with the left hand (courtesy RSI), but that is as far as I have gone! So with the sole intention of doing TP (time-pass), I continued to bowl left-handed at the top of 3rd and the result again was as expected....first 2 throws - gutter! The next 2, I did better and managed 3 and a 5, but next 2........back to gutter :-D but by this time, I was having fun and mid-way through actually managed to get a spare! Then for some reason, for our team-mates in the other lane, their time limit got over and they decided to leave and so did a few from our lane....for some reason a few of us stuck around and we resumed playing...and I managed my first ever strike bowling left-handed :-D The game continued and I ended up with the highest score - 93!! :-D It was a wonderful sense of achievement :-p so much so that I think I shall switch loyalties while bowling ;-)

some of the famous men of India are ambidextrous too...The Big B, Sachin Tendulkar, but they are genuine left-handers, who I think might have been forced to use their right hands...something to do with some Indian myth or something, I guess :-p...even Mahatma Gandhi was, IIRC, in the same league....not that I am counting myself in the same league as these great gentlemen! but no harm in aspiring to ;-)

-uv.