io fui, tu fosti, lui fu

Got my pink IC back yesterday. Woohoo! =) Toyed with the idea of changing the photo of me in primary school with my most uncool plastic glasses and nerdy grin, but learnt that it'd set me back 60 bucks to do so. So much for that.

Took the language placement test at the Italian Cultural Institute located in United Square this morning. It wasn't that difficult, though I was taken aback by the questions involving il passato remoto (the remote past) which I had refused to revise the week before, thinking that there was only a very remote (hee) possibility of being tested on it. Lo and behold, it was in the test! Il passato remoto is one of those useless tenses that should simply be phased out. Along with il congiuntivo and all its forms. Hmph. Now I await the call of one of the professors to assess my spoken ability. Yikes.

Also finally got down to watching the Enduring Love DVD which I had bought in KL months ago. It's based on an Ian McEwan novel of the same title which I read back in JC. It's a stalker movie about a teacher who finds himself mercilessly harassed by a man who's convinced they were meant for each other. I like how British movies always seem to have the same actors in them. This one stars Samantha Morton (Agatha, the pre-cog in Minority Report), Rhys Ifans (Hugh Grant's goofy roommate in Notting Hill) and Bill Nighy (most remembered for the Christmas-is-all-around song in Love Actually; also played Viktor the vampire elder in Underworld). Rather engrossing and beautifully shot.