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John van de Ruit- Journal Entry May 28th

29. May 2009

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THE END OF THE ROAD   Time is a trickster. One minute you stand with weeks stretched out before you, and the next the looming and predictable dead end casts a shadow across the face. Weirdly, Cambodia feels like it was the previous year and i can barely remember Kuala Lumpur at all, and may have to [...]

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John van de Ruit- Journal Entry 22nd May

22. May 2009

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ADVENTURES IN A MINI-WAN (PART 2)   I apologise for the fact that i had to break off the story last time due to excessive heat in the internet cafe, a mosquito swarm nesting on my right ankle and a number of long media interviews which have kept me from completing the full sorry tale.   So to get [...]

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HOT OFF THE PRESS!!! Spud the Movie Update from producer Ross Garland

15. May 2009

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At last Ross Garland the producer of Spud the movie has stepped out of the the boardroom/bathroom for some long awaited news on the long awaited Spud movie. So all you future movie stars and buffs out there, pay close attention because we might never hear from the man again. I hand you over to Ross [...]

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John van de Ruit- Journal Entry May 13th

13. May 2009

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Sunday 10th May – 1 Month until launch. SWINE SYPHILIS AND ADVENTURES IN A MINI-WAN (Part One) SWINE SYPHILIS Notwithstanding three delightful near death experiences in the back of a Cambodian tuk-tuk, it has been a rather pleasant trip as far as transport is concerned. That is until we reached Southern Thailand this week. Now [...]

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John van de Ruit- Journal Entry May 1st

4. May 2009

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SPUD MILTON TOMB RAIDER It’s been a marvellous (wickedly splendid) eight days in the sleepy town of Siem Reap. The name itself means “Siam defeated” which refers directly to a great battle with the Thais that may not have occurred at all. The attractions of this place are the great temple ruins of Angkor built between [...]

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John van de Ruit- Journal Entry April 21st

21. April 2009

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21st APRIL 50 Days to launch   The bugger about growing older is that it’s an invisible act of decay. Like watching a rose bloom, one minute it’s a bulging bud and the next it’s as vast as a cauliflower, falling to pieces, and soiling its vase water. Yesterday, against all odds, I turned 34 years old, which [...]

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John van de Ruit – Journal Entry- April 16th

16. April 2009

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MAD ABOUT KEP!   I have always suspected that the ways of our modern society, and all of us that exist within it, are clinically insane if not stark raving bonkers. The notion of a mad world that refuses to acknowledge it’s inner lunatic has permeated just about everything I have ever written. The problem is – people [...]

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John van de Ruit – Journal Entry- April 7th

7. April 2009

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64 DAYS TO LAUNCH!!!   Dear Spud fans, friends, Romans and people at the wrong website.   Greetings from Phnom Penh, Cambodia. It’s a week into the trip and I have thankfully settled down after the flurry of finishing the book and then roaring off to bustling Kuala Lumpur. I have finally, after a number of torturous nights watching [...]

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John van de Ruit – Journal Entry – April 1

1. April 2009

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KUALA LUMPUR (Malaysia) 1st APRIL 71 DAYS to launch Happy April fools day y’all! Since my job is to make people laugh and to distract them from their daily lives with idiotic nonsense, i shall therefore desist from attempting an April fool’s joke about myself. Options i considered were: I’m not coming back. I’m having a sex change. I’m racing [...]

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