In order to celebrate the Q3 results, which were not too bad, Straumur organised a bowling night for the London office. The night did cost around £300 p.p. and was real fun as you can surely imagine. Free drinks, free finger food, ..... (I was missing the coccaine, champagne and hookers, things that should not be missing at a bankers party - as far as the movies say.) Another nice fact of the night, I did pretty well....(see email below)
From: Diana German - Straumur
Sent: 26 October 2007 09:42
To: - All London
Cc: Davíð Freyr Oddsson - Straumur; Björg Björnsdóttir - Straumur
Subject: Everyone's a winner
All Star Lanes in Bayswater was the venue for London’s bowling night out. To set the scene, imagine cheesy diner style décor, leatherette booths, rock ‘n roll music, burgers, onion rings and fries with milkshakes and bottled beer.
It was a closely fought battle with only one point in it between the two top teams. In second place came Matthew’s team from capital markets with 272 but in first place came corporate finance with 273.
Star performer
Christoph “Bullet” Schmidinger who consistently outplayed everyone else in the alley. His personal best was 89 followed by 82
Top team
(based on 2x5 frame games)
Corporate Finance take the crown with Markus, Shahram, Hicham, Wei and Kuat being the top team.
It should be noted that that only reason these guys won was because they arrived early and had time to warm up and perfect their technique before everyone else.
Other star performers were
Kris “Kristofferson” Meissner with 81
Shahram “Evil Knievel” Shoraka with 80
Most entertaining bowler
Daniel “Carry on Bowling” Svanstrom for his camp style; waltzing, through the legs, over the shoulder and always with a drink in hand
Most improved bowler
Wei “Take it Easy” Li’s slow and gentle style steadily developed into a cracker of a performance in his last game when he scored a double strike and narrowly lost winning the game by 1 point
Please come and see me after lunch to receive your prizes. Photos and evidence from last night will hopefully be up on Insider by lunch time.
Other memorable performances:
Antonia’s unique “bouncing ball” technique which was surprisingly effective as she scored a number of strikes
Mikael’s wildly exuberant style that meant everyone had to get out of the way; even the skittles seemed to cower
Kris for his perfect bowling style and technique, signs of a misspent youth me thinks
Carolina who managed with unerring accuracy to get the ball in the gutter almost every time she bowled – what a consistent performer
Simon (I) for his ability to dance, joke, sing and bowl all at once whilst also trying out new bowling techniques which included a double handed push from an all fours position (it failed)
Mounir for pretending to be a bowling ball himself but falling way short of the mark with a slapstick style slip
Samuel for his prayer like pose after every bowl that only saw him rise up when skittles went down
Thanks to everyone for coming and to those who helped organise a top night out. Obviously thanks to Isabelle to who paid for everything – we’ll go out with you again!
Di
From: Diana German - Straumur
Sent: 26 October 2007 09:42
To: - All London
Cc: Davíð Freyr Oddsson - Straumur; Björg Björnsdóttir - Straumur
Subject: Everyone's a winner
All Star Lanes in Bayswater was the venue for London’s bowling night out. To set the scene, imagine cheesy diner style décor, leatherette booths, rock ‘n roll music, burgers, onion rings and fries with milkshakes and bottled beer.
It was a closely fought battle with only one point in it between the two top teams. In second place came Matthew’s team from capital markets with 272 but in first place came corporate finance with 273.
Star performer
Christoph “Bullet” Schmidinger who consistently outplayed everyone else in the alley. His personal best was 89 followed by 82
Top team
(based on 2x5 frame games)
Corporate Finance take the crown with Markus, Shahram, Hicham, Wei and Kuat being the top team.
It should be noted that that only reason these guys won was because they arrived early and had time to warm up and perfect their technique before everyone else.
Other star performers were
Kris “Kristofferson” Meissner with 81
Shahram “Evil Knievel” Shoraka with 80
Most entertaining bowler
Daniel “Carry on Bowling” Svanstrom for his camp style; waltzing, through the legs, over the shoulder and always with a drink in hand
Most improved bowler
Wei “Take it Easy” Li’s slow and gentle style steadily developed into a cracker of a performance in his last game when he scored a double strike and narrowly lost winning the game by 1 point
Please come and see me after lunch to receive your prizes. Photos and evidence from last night will hopefully be up on Insider by lunch time.
Other memorable performances:
Antonia’s unique “bouncing ball” technique which was surprisingly effective as she scored a number of strikes
Mikael’s wildly exuberant style that meant everyone had to get out of the way; even the skittles seemed to cower
Kris for his perfect bowling style and technique, signs of a misspent youth me thinks
Carolina who managed with unerring accuracy to get the ball in the gutter almost every time she bowled – what a consistent performer
Simon (I) for his ability to dance, joke, sing and bowl all at once whilst also trying out new bowling techniques which included a double handed push from an all fours position (it failed)
Mounir for pretending to be a bowling ball himself but falling way short of the mark with a slapstick style slip
Samuel for his prayer like pose after every bowl that only saw him rise up when skittles went down
Thanks to everyone for coming and to those who helped organise a top night out. Obviously thanks to Isabelle to who paid for everything – we’ll go out with you again!
Di
