இ Random facts III ~ Blue or Red Pill¿

The Matrix

As Morpheus says to Neo, “This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back. You take the blue pill - the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill - you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes.” It’s time to take the red pill and continue reading..

The above is one of the famous quotes in the movie 'The Matrix'. Unfortunately just too bad Bananaz cannot be the 'chosen one' for the most obvious reason he picked the wrong pill. Moment of Truth ~ Bananaz is colour blind or a more precise term is colour vision deficiency (CVD). According to Wikipedia ~ "Colour blindness or colour vision deficiency is the decreased ability to perceive differences between some of the colors that others can distinguish. It is most often of genetic nature, but may also occur because of some eye, nerve, or brain damage, or exposure to certain chemicals."

Example of an Ishihara color test plate. The numeral "74" should be clearly visible to viewers with normal color vision. Viewers with dichromacy or anomalous trichromacy may read it as "21", and viewers with achromatopsia may not see numbers. Source: Wikipedia

During our very first meet up with bloggers up north in April 02 2011, Eugene commented that Bananaz is so fit but wait till Bananaz peel off the skin then shall see all the holes & flaws inside. Here are some of the ugly experiences Bananaz faced with blogging, starting with Reanaclaire when she posted 'My Saree And Sari'. Bananaz can only remain mum on which is a nicer colour for the red or glowing green sari?. Huh oh no! Which is red and which is green both looked like black? Then Mei Teng posted 'Just Chilliing Out Part 2' with her pale yellow gecko huhhhhh! Bananaz could not think of any colour for the gecko. Our foodie Pete gave us some tips how to 'How to Choose (select) Nice, Sweet, Ripe, Juicy and Tasty Watermelon'. Bananaz flunk the test and can only do one test out of the four ie the thump (knock) test. Sorry before proceeding further Bananaz got a confession to make regarding how 'Bananaz' got its name about being yellow from the outside and white inside? Actually Bananaz does not even know he is yellow just read and heard about it thus assumed the skin is yellow and when Annie Q posted 'Brown and Peach' that confused Bananaz even further with more complication of colours.

At this juncture we have to be very careful with Chinese words for colour blindness which is 色盲 *sè máng* sounds very close to lecher 色狼 *sè láng* lit. means colour wolf. The Chinese word 色*sè* colour has a dual meaning colour or sex. Like I mentioned before beware of the knife on the word 色*sè* [here] that Chinese talk about 'yellow' colour for pornography where else English uses 'blue'. No wonder with all the confusion and blindness Bananaz is at a total lost.

Special thanks to colorvisiontesting.com

Have a go on the colour vision test with three pictures of which Bananaz could not see anything at all other than the multiple dots of various unknown colours. Its the blind leading the blind and would appreciate it very much if you could tell me what you see from the pictures. More test can be done [HERE] and [HERE].

Image courtesy of Wikipedia

By now quite a few would be thinking how on earth Bananaz survived all these years? Let's rewind the clock to take a trip back memory lane. Bananaz was not aware of his colour blindness until the mastermind board game during his teens brought up the issue that he was accused of cheating in the game and then only realised of his colour deficiency as the rest is history. What a joke! A colour blind Bananaz playing a mastermind colour game no wonder why he never win a single game at all. During the snooker craze in the late 80's Bananaz often had a wrong cue shot of the brown and red ball. Need to ask opponent where is the brown and red balls across the snooker table. Sick of wearing only whites to office made a bold move to have various colour shirts but must write inside the collar the colour of each shirt. Can remember vividly one incident where one colleague was so agitated with my colour combination,  a maroon shirt with dark black dotted tie during the presentation. She walked right to my face outside the conference room and blasted at me and said "For goodness sake please don't you ever wear that green tie with your maroon shirt anymore". Oh dear! Green??? Bananaz will occasionally not seeing colours with the eyes but with his mind. Wow so profound? How?

Hot Bananaz in chilly red? 

We learned from school, sky and sea are blue, maple leaf is red, most other leaves and trees are green, chilly is red just like hot Bananaz pix or the post office mail box in front of any post office. Even the song lyrics goes like this ~ 'Roses are red my love violets are blue..' Well Bananaz just need to increase his RAM to memorise all these colours and not actually seeing them crystal clear. Another blunder happened in one company seafood dinner in Klang when the enthusiastic Bananaz asking around the table who wants red chillies when actually its green chillies oh oh..Ever since then my CEO often walked past me teasing why am I wearing purple socks.  The major frustration Bananaz would faced in the everyday living is when asking for direction over the phone when meeting up with clients. More than often the receiver tells you what colour house, gate or building you should look out for. Thanks to GPS no more colourful torturing. Have you ever had this experience when ordering your food from a hawker stall in a coffee shop and it took much longer than expected? Overheard a conversation of d'bozz and his assistance arguing on the customer wearing a red shirt and his assistance just cannot locate and had taken the food for a joy ride going in circles. From my personal experience either d'bozz is colour blind or his assistance or both. Apparently majority of men would suffer from colour blindness and the ladies, you are saved.

Oh how I love and really at ease to read Globetrotter's post about how freely the people in Japan would dress regardless of colours. She wrote 'I will wear an orange tight with green jacket if I LIKE IT! And no one judge you on this. Love the SELF-CONFIDENCE!'

This year the Rabbit will be having a double celebration in Year of the Rabbit 兔tù and Easter 兔tù-gether. HAPPY EASTER!

Meet my cousin Bluey Bananaz from Jupiter. Or is it really blue hmmmmm?

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