SPRUIKED DJAK STYLE
spruiked [spruk’t]
(adj.) embellished to make more appealing or acceptable: to dress us the facts with colourful details. (pp.) spoken in a wild or vehement manner.
djak [di/jak]
(n.) Jakarta, the largest city and capital of Indonesia. Apparently without logic, contradicting or disregarding all principles of common sense.
In 2005, vaguely panicked by the knowledge that I was nearly half-way through my life and hadn’t really done anything, I threw caution to the wind and moved to Indonesia. Me and my three cubic metres (comprised mostly of my bike) got on a plane not knowing what to expect at the other end of the seven hour flight. I knew nothing about my new home, except that it was nothing like where I had been and was, therefore, exactly where I wanted to go...
banished to jakarta for (as yet) undisclosed crimes...