I must admit. I had slowly neglected my Kindle since I got my BlackBerry on the last week of November 2011. We used to be inseparable from the moment I bought it in 2010 when it was first released.
But since I no longer have regular classes and the internet connectivity in my cellphone is admittedly much better (though Kindle’s 3G capability, providing FREE internet is insurmountable), I ceased carrying it everyday.
But not for long. I originally planned to start my review sessions every Saturday for the August comprehensive exams. However, I was informed that it was more advisable to take the separate language proficiency examination this July, rather than have it waived even if I was already a graduate of their department .
It left me no choice but review also for this other test. In this case, it will be much easier to read French articles about international politics from, for example, Le Monde, via Kindle’s article mode. Time to beef up my reading comprehension. (Or I can also read fashion in French here, but I doubt that they would turn up in the exams.)
Surprisingly, when I tried it out again, the first article on the headline was about colorblindness:
The article talks about this breakthrough in colorblindness design (daltonien is French for colorblind) and how ColorADD revolutionizes color recognition for colorblind people, mostly men.
You see, I’m really still a man after all. The sentence “la mer n’est pas bleue, elle est belle” (Eng. The sea isn’t blue, it’s beautiful) captures my exact sentiment about this “affliction”. Since I was a little boy, I get C- or D on my art classes because the people’s skins were colored green or the eggplants were blue. Or how I was always the “It” in a game of Touch-the-Color. Or even in high school where the whole class was asked to come in all black for a group activity — and I came in wearing a very, very dark brown shirt (according to them).
Of course, I’m not hurt when people would make fun of me and jokingly ask “What color is this?” to every random things they can point their fingers to. My friends in college would do that and they know that my answer would either be “bright” or “dark” to be safe. The most notorious question would be “what color is the grass and the leaves?”.
I mean, come on, I know they were green because they were supposed to be green, with the chlorophyll and all. I still know my biology. Most of the time, I just retort with “I’m colorblind but I’m not a moron!”
Well, if this ColorAdd system were present when I was little, then things could have been easier for me. My art teacher would not have scolded me for poking fun at her. Looking back, I have already made Shrek’s prototype two decades ago.
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