What's your color? Today is blue.

I didn't know green has been my favourite color until one Christmas when I gifted a brother-in-law with a dress shirt colored white with green stripes and my sister said, "that is your favorite color."

Then, during a barbecue, a relative upon seeing my car commented, "oh, green is your favourite color," to which I innocently asked, "why?" People around me knew but I didn't.

Years before, I thought blue was my favorite color; not that I was conscious of colors. It was just a reflexive answer when people asked me what my favourite color was. As a kid at school, we had a club called Blue Stars. Our neighbourhood was called Blue Water.

When I learned I was inclined to the color green, I was reminded of my father. Our first car was a green and white Pontiac ; years later, he bought a blue Opel Rekord and had it painted green.

While growing up, I lived in a house whose interior was painted green. Our first upholstered furniture was a set of green. The second set was also green.

Nowadays, Human Resource people sometimes use the Color Personality Test to gauge a prospective or a current employee's strengths and limitations.

Personality tests are used to determine your type of personality, your values, interests and your skills. They can be used to simply assess what type of person you are or, more specifically, to determine your aptitude for a certain type of occupation or career.

Personality tests range from the five-minute Color Quiz which is supposed to determine your personality type by the colors you select, to the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator which is one of the top-rated personality tests that helps assess your personality type and helps to explore career options.

There are also a variety of tests that measure your intelligence or aptitude, inventory your skills and assess your ability to succeed in a career. These are the aptitude test, career test, IQ test and the inventories of skills. Take your color personality test at www.colorcode.com. It's free and maybe fun.

Now, when I open my closet, there are more standard whites and blues. The few greens were probably purchased by the subconscious.