Zaithoon Bin Ahamed·Sep 8, 2025A test of patience and creative freedomI’ve always believed that to be an interesting person, you need to do interesting things. That means trying something new, stepping into an…
Zaithoon Bin Ahamed·Aug 13, 2025Cat-Luck and Love — TurmericYou’ve heard of the old adage, ‘being at the right place, at the right time’ right? But it’s also almost always tempered with how well…
Zaithoon Bin Ahamed·Dec 24, 2024The Litmus Test of ‘Trust’I recently traveled to Hanoi, Vietnam, for a short vacation to visit some friends — friends I had made during a work stint in the…A response icon1A response icon1
Zaithoon Bin Ahamed·Oct 29, 2023Ballet Shoes, Never Worn[From Flash Fiction Writing Workshop — we picked topics out of a bowl, and we were given some loose guidelines and 10 minutes to write a…
Zaithoon Bin Ahamed·Aug 27, 2023A dozen, Lankan-style, Sunday laughs!They’re called trishaws, three-wheelers, rickshaws, autos, tuk-tuks, etc. — a menacingly common mode of transportation in several Asian…A response icon3A response icon3
Zaithoon Bin Ahamed·Apr 16, 2023Finding ‘Common Ground’ In A Foreign LandDedicated to all my ‘Pataka’ (firecracker/sexy) friends in India!
Zaithoon Bin Ahamed·Jan 2, 2023Lock, Stock and Ready to Roll Into 2023!‘Today is the first day of the rest of my life’ … said John Denver in one of his older hits from the 1960s. It’s very apt during these…
Zaithoon Bin Ahamed·Aug 29, 2022To Detach or Attach …As a teenager, I was fascinated with the news — yes, this is true. However, at the time, it was not so much the content of the news I was…
Zaithoon Bin Ahamed·Aug 12, 2022A Pure Heart, A Fickle Mind …My weekends in Hanoi, Vietnam are relatively chilled out and relaxing because I don’t have the typical distractions or ‘extra-curricular’…
Zaithoon Bin Ahamed·Apr 4, 2022Root Cause Alert — Has Sri Lanka Finally Re-Set?When I came to Vietnam about six months ago on a work assignment, one of my challenges was to find food that was pork free. Pork is a very…
