It was a chill morning of late March, loud rumbles and cracks woke me up at 6 AM, which is too early of my routine these days. The natural sound of a thunderstorm made me fully conscious and I drew near the window. While gazing out at the torrential downpour through my window, there was only one thought in my mind. "What to do today?" A billion plans raced through my mind as the clouds roared outside the window. It was the first week after the Government had imposed lockdown in my city Quetta. For the vast majority of us, they were strange and unprecedented times; this forced isolation was an occasional, albeit annoying part of life. In quarantine, the drastic changes to my routine life as a teacher and science journalist forced me to alter my social habits and re-evaluate relationships. The lockdown has quite made us retreat into a bubble−but a digitized bubble. From virtual parties to e-conferences and online learning courses to webinars, more and more sectors and areas of life are coming around to the realization that work-from-home, works well. COVID-19 has genuinely been a silent enemy that has leveled global societies and uncovered just how vulnerable we truly are as a species. Despite these challenges, one can spend quality time in lockdown and self-isolation. I found it an excellent chance to concentrate on some of my long-delayed tasks nearly impossible to achieve in routine chores. I bought dozens of books during my recent visits to Karachi and Lahore but could hardly get a chance to fitly arrange them on my bookshelf. That day when dark clouds were hovering all over the sky, I sat beside my bookshelf, and by the lunch, I had sorted out all the books that I had to read. It was a great treat to delve into an exciting book on a rainy day with a hot cup of coffee. In the evening, while skimming through 'Never at Rest', the meticulously documented biography of Isaac Newton, by Richard Westfall, I realized that what's specious was the idea to spend these days in some creativity. Isaac Newton fled to Whoolsthrope, a small town near Cambridge University when Bubonic plague hit the Cambridge in 1665. There, in complete solitude, Newton produced an unbelievable number of exceptional ideas of Calculus, Analytical Geometry, Gravity, Science of motion, optics, and many more. As a researcher by birth, I was curious to know how everyone was facing the challenges of work-at-home and life under quarantine. I reached out to a few intellects in my social circle who happened to be of the thought that the situation was quite manageable if one was determined and focused. Later, I discussed it with my friends and colleagues, and they found this idea fabulous. We decided to publish a booklet on the theme, "Being a professional in the pandemic." It was another daunting task to pick whom to interview because each of us had different interests and favors. I spent all day long attending WhatsApp calls and had late-night discussions with colleagues on Zoom. As a team lead, I found it the most challenging experience of my life; most of the team members are budding University students, suffering through anxiety and depression due to quarantine and got annoyed over petty things easily. After some heated debates, we finally ended up with a list of interviewees that included national and international experts from various fields of life. We reached out to around 25 individuals to know how they were staying productive under quarantine despite the chaos surrounding us. It was not that easy as we thought, most of the experts were going through the challenges of work-at-home and could hardly manage time to respond to emails. Soon we realized that everyone around us, whether a scientist or a student, was trying to cope with the new normal in their personal and professional lives, and we needed to stay calm and patient while dealing with the interviewees. As the team lead, these incidents reminded me that it was only a magazine edition; besides, these were the rarest moments to have fun, work hard, make memories, and have no stress about the trivial details. I had setbacks, I could feel the taste of my tongue in my mouth getting panic attacks due to sleepless nights, I could feel each hard-pumping heartbeat of blood travel out my chest when, during a long-awaited e-meeting, my internet got disconnected, and I could hardly manage another chance to interview that expert again. Now looking back four months later, three weeks that we spent interviewing professionals around the globe, were the most memorable days I have ever spent. While this magazine edition might not have gone exactly the way we thought it would, it certainly made those days unforgettable in the best way and taught me some life-long lessons. I believe that it was the most creative way I, along with twenty-two team members of mine, could turn those challenging days into an opportunity and inspiration.