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Palm Spring Golf @ Batam

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I returned to Tering Bay but the weather did not welcomed us as much as we would like. I remembered when I used to organize monthly golf trips here, some of those days were like that. It began raining heavily when we were in the ferry after waiting for a month and spent time planning the trip with a day's leave wasted. So everyone just sat in the ferry quietly with a grumpy and long face. Fortunately there is a thing called beer to keep you sane. We managed to finish the first half and by the ten, with inclement weather looming, we decided to call it off ourselves for safety. At places where they do not have reading for pressure built up in clouds, there would be no siren to stop play so we have to use our common sense. It is a clear and almost immediate danger if lightning is about from 5 km away. In such a situation, if you detected the first flash of lightning activity, start counting (as you can see from a flash and as light travels faster than sound, a thunder...