Tag Archive for 'Rehman Rashid'

Por Larranaga Petit Corona (DEC 2010) & Rehman Rashid

I visited an old friend recently as part of the eid celebrations, and also because i’ve been promising to do so for the longest time, and just never have. Rehman Rashid is his name. A talented journalist and published author, a man whose work i read as part of my university coursework, whose writing i [...]

Units of Value

Part of the Rehman Rashid series of reviews GIRDING my loins and all associated body parts to spend another several thousand ringgit on cigars (as a means both of celebrating the release of my retirement funds and anticipating a time when I will have spent the lot on cigars) I find that I have subconsciously [...]

The Penultimate Dilemma

Part of the Rehman Rashid series of reviews IN a corner of the humidor were two Cohiba Siglo VIes from a 2005 box of 25; back from when they were rolled with flat butts. They were no longer lion-tawny as they had been when the box lid first slid open. They had acquired the look [...]

Waiting to Retrohale

Part of the Rehman Rashid series of reviews AT Kuala Lumpur‘s chi-chi Q-Bar five or more years ago, during the first incarnation of his estimable cigar blog, our esteemed host Aizuddin photographed me exhaling cigar smoke through my nostrils and captioned the pic: “How does Rehman blow the smoke out through his nose?” He couldn’t [...]

Puros Indios Forever!

Part of the Rehman Rashid series of reviews THERE are but three things the Internet is good for: 1. Information retrieval; 2. Interpersonal communication; and, 3. Buying and selling stuff. Image via Wikipedia All three synergise most harmoniously for cigar smokers. Were it not for the WWWeb, non-Cuban cigars would surely not constitute half my [...]