New Era

Monica dines with Monica

- Paheja Siririka - psiririka@nepc.com.na

The top trending story since last week from the social media streets is of the overzealou­s musician Monica Pinias, popularly known as Top Cheri, who took First Lady Monica Geingos out for lunch at a well-known eatery in the capital.

Top Cheri shared details on how she prepared herself to meet the first lady – and as always, protocol took precedence.

“There were three guards: one was to sanitise me, the other to check the gift I got

for her, and the last one to check me,” she said with amusement.

She said: “The First Lady finally walked in and I told myself I am not going to be formal and all protocol observed and whatnot, and told myself to be the same energetic person I have always been. To my surprise, homegirl (Geingos)’s energy was beyond my expectatio­ns”.

Top Cheri told Entertainm­ent Now! everything went smooth until it was time to order at this fancyyet-chilled eatery uptown.

“I am a typical Omwambo girl, so if I am hungry, Sai’s Kitchen and Pepata are as

luxurious as it gets. I am a kapana girl, so the first lady ordered on top of her head; she didn’t even look at the menu. She said all of these weird names – the only thing I heard was sushi – and she loves loves sushi,” discovered Top Cheri.

She added: “I also decided to be that girl kutja I am not going to check the menu and I told the waiter to get me chips and wings, and the waiter was apologetic and said they don’t sell wings there, which made me consult the menu, so I was not classy like that anymore. The thing about this menu is its just names man – a lot of fancy names. We are used to seeing pictures, so I read the name snit-something and I thought it was chicken Schnitzel.”

She said, when the plate came, she was embarrasse­d.

“First of all, I know I am a G.O.A.T but not this type of goat; there was a young grass situation that had three pieces of fish on that plate. So, I told the

First Lady that I don’t eat in the morning and I will have it as takeaway. I could see it in her eyes that she wanted to laugh at me; that expression that homegirl is from the Tura and ordered something she knows nothing of,” historical­ly narrated Top Cheri.

She captioned her Facebook post, which is circulatin­g on all

platform, as: I had such an amazing time today! I took the First Lady out for lunch and we spoke for three whole hours – what a force.

It’s indeed going to be a good 2021! Let’s buckle up.

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 ?? Photo: Contribute­d ?? Lunching… Top Cheri with First Lady Monica Geingos at an eatery in the capital.
Photo: Contribute­d Lunching… Top Cheri with First Lady Monica Geingos at an eatery in the capital.

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