About The Author

Kam Raslan is a writer and director, working in film, TV and theatre in Malaysia. He is a columnist in The Edge weekly and Off the Edge magazine. His writings were previously compiled in Generation: A Collection of Contemporary Malaysian Ideas. He also writes for the Instant Cafe Theatre and will one day make his own feature film.

Confessions of an Old Boy: The Dato' Hamid Adventures is Kam's first book and is available at major bookstores in Malaysia, Singapore, and Brunei, and is also available online at Amazon.com

If you wish to contact Kam Raslan, email to:
kam at kamraslan dot com.

Confessions of an Old Boy: The Dato' Hamid Adventures

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• Exposé on the Old Boy
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Downloads

Download the following samples from the book in PDF format:

• Chapter 1, "A Letter to a Newspaper"
• Chapter 2, "Bikers"
• Chapter 3, "Dato' in Love"
• Chapter 4, "The Beat Generation"
• Chapter 5, "Ariff and Capitalism"
• Chapter 6, "Murder in Parit Chindai"
• Chapter 7, "The Malayans"

Kam Raslan: News, Readings & Other Appearances

"A Bit of Culture" Radio Show (featuring Kam Raslan)

Every Saturday afternoon, on BFM 89.9, Kam and his two co-hosts take a look at three topics from the wide world of the arts, creativity and pop culture.

"We'll try to look underneath and around the subjects and maybe we'll see how it impacts on our lives. And check out the Facebook Group, A Bit of Culture, where we want to carry on the conversation."

A Bit of Culture on BFM

Courtesy of

Latest column:
Stinging arguments and lame apologies
(The Edge - Options pullout, 4 December 2017)

Kam Raslan's Confessions of an Old Boy: The Dato' Hamid Adventures (ISBN 978 983 3445 00 4) was first serialised in Off the Edge magazine and is published by Marshall Cavendish Editions, an imprint of Marshall Cavendish International.