Boom!

I couldn’t remember or recall how she and I became friends, like best best friends. I try to concentrate on those memories back in first year but all I could remember is her hanging out with the whole group. At first, we didn’t click but as time went by, we got to know each other and found out that we have a lot of things in common.

But I’m not here to tell you about the things we share in common or our differences, either. Right now, I’m going to tell you about her ― Anna Monica Padilla Uygongco, also known as Mocca to many, the girl who has grazed her way into our hearts with her easy laughter, her amazing sense of humor, and her vivid imagination.

Born on the 26th of March 1996, Mocca shares the same birthdate with one of her favorite actresses, Keira Knightley, and she never let anyone miss that connection. Mocca loves to eat siomai and her favorite fruit is pineapple. She rarely drinks soft drinks and seldom eats junk foods. She likes her balunggay bread stuffed with all sorts of whatnots she can find in her kitchen. In short, Mocca loves to eat.

Topping her adoration for food is her obsession for the hit American TV series, Grey’s Anatomy, from which she found one of her many soul mates, Patrick Galen Dempsey. Yep, she’s got an eye for Dr. McDreamy. Chief McDreamy. But, no, this girl doesn’t stick to one fellow only. She’s got a junkyard full of men. Let me see, there’s Tony Stark / Iron Man, James Marsden, Orlando Bloom, Gary Sinise, Jack Sparrow / Johnny Depp, Nathan Fillion, Emmett McCarty Cullen / Kellan Lutz, and the like. And the like. In that junkyard, she’s got women stored in a corner, too. Hmm… Stana Katic, Meredith Grey / Ellen Pompeo, Melina Kanakaredes, Keira Knightley, Rosalie Hale / Nikki Reed, and the like. And the like. *snickers* Did I also mention she loves to say ‘and the like’?

She doesn’t run out of stories to tell everyone. She has a way with words, blends with the phrases, and feels the sentences. Plus, it’s fun to watch the emotions playing on her face. Yep, she wears her heart on her sleeve. One could say whether she’s happy, overzealous, lovestruck, starstruck, sad, or bored. It’s written all over her face. It’s like watching a movie. There’s a thrill in the play-by-play of her emotions.

The classroom is never boring whenever she’s there. She’s like this time bomb, waiting for the perfect time to explode, and believe me, when she does, it feels like a strong earthquake hits the place. A random person in nature, she makes you smile with almost everything she does. Either she may be reciting the most foolish line from a movie, singing the funniest song you’ve never even heard of, or using her gift to make the silliest and stupidest faces, she never fails to unite the class in mirth.

She’s Joy Personified, a goddess with a power to touch everyone with her laughter, a doctor with a cure to heal everyone’s wounds, a singer with a voice to soothe your worries, and a person with a heart and an ability to make you feel beautiful.

Mocca is that girl ― the one who believes that she’ll one day meet Patrick Dempsey and make him fall head over heels for her, the one who dreams of becoming a successful surgeon someday, the one who wants to have sixteen children in the future. (And I don’t even want to imagine how she would look like after the sixteenth baby.)



FUN FACT:
We both love the word “seriously”. And the funny thing about this is when she tells me something, I say “Seriously” in a very astonished tone, and then she’d reply back, “Seriously”, with one eyebrow twitching upward, and then I’d go, “Seriously”, again in a gasp, and then she’d go, “Seriously”, again and then we’d end up laughing our asses off because of our insane conversation.