yellow hates kylie
i still remember vividly how i found out bout my inability to read yellow words on any colours of backgrounds. it was year 1996 when i was still in primary school. the last year in primary school was full of happening events including bcg injection day. the day when you could hear big girls crying or big bullies screaming just because of a tiny weeny needle being pricked into their skin. i was afraid of many things in life but never afraid of injections. in fact, i love injections as i knew i would be vaccinated. i rather suffer a little pain than getting infected with diseases.
anyway, of course there were nurses during injection day. their task was to instill the importance of hygiene in us. they would explain methods to deal with our hair if we ever infected with fleas. yeah, those scary monsters which would cause the whole class of students scratching their heads like monkeys if one of the classmates was infected. then new fashionable hairstyle would be in place as you would see many girls keeping their hair as short as possible. i was not privileged to keep long hair during my primary school years not because of fleas but more to mum didn't believe my ability to tie up my long hair.
in that year, suddenly the nurses felt the need to test our eyes on colours. they said that there wasn't a cure for being colour blind but it's always better for us to know of our own shortcomings in order to protect ourselves. thus we were divided into groups. some of us would queue up for our injections while others queue up for the eye tests. some of us would go straight for the colour blind test.
being an impatient girl, i would peep over my friends' shoulders to see how the test was being conducted. we would be given a small book full of different colours of polka dots and were supposed to read out the numbers we saw loudly. i was astounded as i couldn't see any numbers at all. i thought perhaps i stood too far to see the book.
alas, it was my turn. first i saw a clutter of yellow and green polka dots. i stared hard at them but still couldn't see any numbers. i panicked instantly. i even asked the nurses whether they had given me the right book as i couldn't see any numbers. i asked them how to see the numbers. they told to read out the numbers which the colours showed. the problem was i couldn't see them. i only saw yellow and green polka dots. thus i guessed my way through by simply blurting out any numbers that popped up in my mind. my friends gasped as each number i said was totally wrong!
finally the polka dots turned into red and orange. phew, this time i could manage to read all the numbers. bingo! i got them all correct. the nurses looked at me and asked me to turn back the pages so that i could list down the numbers in yellow and green polka dots again. i failed terribly. the guessing game was repeated. after that, the nurses announced to me that i had colour blind problem.
my heart dropped. gee, guess it explained the reason i couldn't read those boards, articles, announcements, etc written in yellow against any backgrounds. i always insisted that my friends read them out for me as no matter how i squinted my eyes, i just couldn't possibly read the whole message properly. i could see yellow things individually but when it's mixed with other colours, please save kylie! please help me to read it instead.
traffic lights weren't a problem as the yellow lights looked orange most of the time. plus even if it's really yellow, obviously if it wasn't green or red it's yellow! what bout the time when the traffic lights didn't function properly? that's simple! if other cars from different directions didn't make a move, obviously the lane i was at should move. other than that, haha... wait for other drivers to sound the honk at me. looking at traffic light wasn't a tough task for me.
maybe you would wonder bout how was i able to read highlighted notes. that shouldn't be a problem as the words were in black. only the background would be in yellow. i could still read them. if it's the other way round, please be kind enough to help me translate it. they would look like an alien to kylie!Labels: lil chatty chat
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