Contrary to this book's title, Musings of a Common Man, Khong Kim Hoang is no common man. Nor is the book merely of his musings. Instead, most of this volume consists of his memoirs, organised by periods, occasionally highlighting significant episodes. He belongs to the one per cent of his age cohort who secured tertiary education in early post-colonial Malaya. More significantly, he took a path less taken to eventually become a major radical student leader at a significant conjuncture in the history of post-colonial Malaysia.