TMAG Vol 1 Issue 27

Dhaka Tribune

Tuesday, October 29, 2013 Volume 1, Issue 27

It’s playtime

A weekly production of

DhakaTribune Editor Zafar Sobhan

8 Written in the Stars Dhaka Paranormal Society (DPS)

Magazine Editor Sabrina Fatma Ahmad TMAG Team Sabiha Mahmud Sumi Rubab Nayeem Khan Munira Fidai Natasha Rahman Saudia Afrin Tahsin Momin Baizid Haque Joarder Contributors Fardeen Ameen Imtiaz Salim Abak Hussain Montaha Absar Wasef Mustafa Naveed Chowdhury Azfar Islam Fahim Razzaq

4 Look of the Week Black and blue

Graphics Sabiha Mahmud Sumi Mohammed Mahbub Alam Production Masum Billah

More inside where to find them”

PICKS OF THE WEEK 2 Room of the week Rohini A

3 Doodle of the week

Advertising Shahidan Khurshed

Sarah Nayeem

10 Guitar tabs of the week Michael Jackson’s “Thriller”

Circulation Wahid Murad Email: tmag@dhakatribune.com, Website: www.dhakatribune.com

10 Spotlight Exalter’s Attack

YOUR WORLD 5 Car Monster trucks

5 FFPB 9 Fiction Scary micro tales

9 Book

9 Non fiction Guide to surviving a zombie apocalypse

10 Instrument The Waterphone

10 Music Get Amped 6 11 TV Sleepy Hollow 11 Game Outlast 11 Movie The Conjuring 11 Animation Heart 12 Urban legends 12 Quiz FASHION 4 Wardrobe check Four Halloween costumes that need to retire

4 Beauty check Hair removal gone wrong Real Life 3 Event Tweets TMAG SAYS 2 Funk up your room Get your creep on 2 FYI Witches and demons 3 School Survival Keep it haunted 6 Hot Topic Sum of all your fears 10 Playlist Top 10 spooky tunes FearoSCOPES 5 Your forecast

Newt Scamander “Fantastic beasts and

Dhaka Tribune

Tuesday, October 15, 2013 Volume 1, Issue 26

Status of the week Adele might set fire to rain. But SpongeBob can make a campfire under water. Like a BAUS.

Quote of the week I’m sorry my recent absence from work caused you to have to do your own work.

Lingo of the week Scarylarious Something that’s scary but also funny

About the cover TMAG’s tales of terror Photographer Syed Latif Hossain Model Ani Alam

Usage Girl 1 “ I laughed so hard watching Scary movie 3” Girl 2 “ Yea dude, that movie was scarylarious”

Editor’s note Dear Readers, As the weather starts to cool, and the nights slowly turn misty, it’s the perfect time to chill with friends and exchange ghost stories. It’s a nice escape from the nightmare of electoral politics happening at the same time.

Since Halloween is just around the bend, we decided to indulge in our creepy side and get it out of the system. We’ve got spooky room decor (Page 2), real life horrors (Schoologistics, Page 3), hairy horrors (Page 4) the science of fear itself

(Hot Topic, Page 6&7), and much, much more. We hope you’ll like it, as well as all the love and detail we put into our pages this week.

We’ve also been getting a ton of doodles and room pics recently, and we’d just like to say: keep it coming, folks, and please be patient; we’ll do our best to accommodate everyone’s entries. Send us your room photos, doodles, confessions, relationship Q&A’s and more to tmag@ dhakatribune.com Love from the TMAG desk

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Your Life

FUNK UP YOUR ROOM

TMAG’s Room of the week

Get your creep on Wouldn’t it be awesome to have your room decorated in a way that give people the whim-whams? Not possible in Dhaka you think? Maybe you can’t give it a full on makeover, but you can certainly spend a little to enhance the creep factor in your room. TMAG shows you how you can make your room haunting yet beautiful

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Rohini A Area

Dhanmondi Artwork

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Paint

We love the creepy-cute

You could paint a side of your walls black. This could be the side where you hang photo frames or paintings on. Black walls give a sullen yet sophisticated look. Those of you who are artsy can consider getting a mural drawn on your wall.

appeal of this room, with its Beetlejuice stripes and ghost murals. Halloween or not, this corner is a conversation starter by itself

Lights saudia afrin

FYI Witches and Demons

Once upon a time, long, long ago, there lived an evil witch. And upon that same time perhaps, there lived children who would be scared of that witch. Kids nowadays, and especially in Dhaka city, have real life horrors to deal with and conventional villains like demons and ghosts don’t seem as scary anymore Hijacked

Cars, CNGs, or buses, whatever your mode of transportation, none are hijacker-proof. If you’re in a car, they’ll steal your mirrors. If you’re in a CNG, they’ll cut through the side and take your bag, if you’re in a bus, they’ll pick your pockets, and if you’re in a rickshaw, you’re simply asking for it. In Dhaka, commuting is not simply travelling; it’s more like going through enemy territory while guarding your life. Scared yet?

Wall

Hang up paintings, photographs or sketches on the black wall. Make sure the wall shade is right above it so that the light falls on the objects.

If you’re using lampshades, place them on a wooden table right underneath the paintings/photo frames.

Hey, sexy

Imagine the above phrase being spoken to you by a stranger on the road, in a lowered voice, for creepier effects. These roadside Romeos are enough to creep the living daylights out of anyone, and no- this has nothing to do with clothes; burqa clad women have gone through a similar ordeals. You can try looking your most unattractive to thwart these pests away but trust us, all you have to do is be a female to be eligible. Creeper alert!

Head over heels

You can fall like this in manholes too. And it’s not so lovely. But the amazingly constructed (or should we say, unconstructed?) roads offer the cheapest camel rides all over Dhaka city.

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Considering the fact that your wall is black, your room must be bright enough to shed light on the rest of the objects in your surroundings, but not so much that it loses the spook factor. Replace bright lights with dim lights and get shades which are attached to the wall, to create a dim effect. You could get yourself a couple of lampshades from the antique shops in Gulshan 2 market. While you are at it, look around for candle holders as well; candle lights add a perfectly gloomy effect. You can also look for the lamp shades at Aslam lighting, Ideas gift shop, and Jatra to choose one that best suits your room.

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If you’re in a car, your camel will be a little more comfortable but if you’re in a rickshaw, forget Future Park, your roller coaster is right here. Add a little rain, and you won’t have a clue whether the hole is in front of you is just a dent, a manhole or a bog. Have a safe ride!

Stalker mania

You may have smiled at a guy or girl at university. That person now dreams of

you day and night, has managed to track your phone number, and knows your whereabouts by following you all over town. By the time you realise you have an admirer with not very friendly ideas, you’re deeper into it than you’d like to believe. Getting rid of these persistent freaks is tricky business. Not very polite measures have led to acid scarring and even rape and murder. Smile selectively. munira fidai

Throw some old furniture or hardware parts around your room, to give it an aged look. For fun, you can make DIY wreaths from doll parts and hang it from your door. Hang up a few wind chimes on your windows. You can also get fake cockroaches and spiders from the Party Shop in Orchid Plaza, Dhanmondi and toss them around your room. A vase full of wilted flowers further adds to the haunted look of your room. rubab nayeem khan

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Schoologistics EVENT Tweets FBS Football Championship 2013 Oct 30 Venue University Of Dhaka

Mahatma

Oct 30 at 7pm Venue Studio Theater Auditorium, Bangladesh Shilpokala Academy

Open Secrets: Child Abuse Oct 30 at 7pm Venue House No. 10, Road No. 9 (new), Dhanmondi R/A

Scholarship for Women

Oct 31 Venue House 2, Road 28, Dhanmondi

Halloween

Oct 31 Venue Simply Thai

Dhanmondi Young Star’s Championship

Oct 31 at 8am Venue Road New 14, Dhanmondi

Fast Lane: Like Always, Like Never Before!

Nov 1 Venue House 184, Lane 02, Mohakhali DOHS

Meet the Corporate ICON Nov 2 at 10:45am Venue SkyLab Education, KA/4, Mamata Complex (4th Floor) Bashundhara R/A Road

SCHOOL SURVIVAL

Keep it Haunted Imagine walking into school in your favourite costume only to notice cobwebs on the pillars and posters that could snatch a nights’ sleep away. Here’s TMAG showing you a spooky way your school can give you the chills Halloween fair

We all get hyped about fairs in Bangladesh, and a Halloween fair at school would mean a whole lot of spooky fun. Each stall can have a different theme. For instance, one stall could have a gala of scary masks that can either be made by students, bought from street side vendors or Chandni Chowk. Another stall can be festooned with Halloween accessories such as spider web key rings, plastic red and black nails, devil horns, witch hats, and crooked noses.

All of these scary goodies are available at Navana Tower’s ground floor party shop or the Party Shop in Orchid Plaza, Dhanmondi. Other interesting stalls could have scary paintings and crafts made by the students to spook up your surroundings.

Tricks and treats

Competition for the best Halloween costume is a great way to keep the excitement of alive. The Witch Hat ring toss has a couple of conical hats glued to a cardboard floor. Students should try their luck at tossing rings onto the hats to win prizes. Saving the best for the last, a mystery box with Halloween goodies should give each student a special Halloween souvenir to take home.

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A creepy welcome

Get chart papers, glue and scissors and cut out bat wings, hollow eyed masks, and broomsticks. Also, borrow the pseudo skulls from your school labs and leave out different parts of it all over the place to add to the effect. The authorities can invest in smoke machines to further enhance the spook factor.

Scary delectables

A food competition will get a lot of hands on deck. Get creative and draw out faces on cookies with chocolate or strawberry syrup. Burgers with tomato sauce dripping from the side also makes a great Halloween meal. Cheese strips cut out to look like fingers can be used with almonds on the tips to represent nails.

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IABC I BRAC University presents Frosh Fest 2013 This semester, IABC (International Association of Business Communicators) had the honour of hosting BRAC University’s Fall club fair on October 1, 2013 at BRACU’s cafeteria and auditorium starting from 10am to 2pm. The fair was named “Frosh Fest,” which inevitably means a festival or celebration for the freshmen and most importantly the first stage of recruitment of the new students in clubs. The fair consisted of 37 thriving clubs which opened their gates for the freshmen of BRACU, temporarily, to become a part of their group.

The inauguration of the fair was graced by Pro Vice Chancellor, Professor Fuad Hassan Mallik, the Registrar, Air Cdre (Retd) Ishfaq Ilahi Choudhury, and the Dean of Student Affairs, Dr Riaz P Khan, who visited each club’s booth individually and shared their words of wisdom with the students. Moreover, they stressed on the operation of clubs, mentioning that BRAC University is one such institution that encourages students to explore their talents outside the academic boundaries. They also praised the clubs’ efforts in successfully conducting the fair.

Adeeba Asri

TMAG’s doodle of the week

Sarah Nayeem has a scary parade inside her head

If you are a classroom doodler, email your doodle to tmag@dhakatribune.com and see it in our weekly!

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LOOK OF

FASHION FACE-OFF

WARDROBE CHECK

THE WEEK

Four Halloween costumes that need to retire How many times have you been to a Halloween party where you found more than one person dressed up in the same way? Yes, it is embarrassing, especially if you are one of them. So here at TMAG, we have handpicked five Halloween costumes that need to retire for at least a decade, if not for good. These costumes have been overdone, and needs to take a vacation somewhere in your closet

The Heath Ledger Joker

The purple overcoat, a green waistcoat, and horrible clown makeup that gives you the shivers. With release of “The Dark Knight,” it was an instant hit among Halloween party goers. No matter where you go, the gruesome clown is inevitable. But it has been over five years since the movie was released and this is why we should give the Joker a long rest. If you really want to dress up as the Joker this year, try out the look from the comic books, the one with slick green hair, fitted clothes, and make up that is not smudged on the face.

Jack Sparrow

Black and blue

Whether or not you’re dressing up for Halloween, this is a good time to bust out the darker shades and rock it with a pair of fiery red lips.

Model Nusrat Srabony House Shopping Paradise by Israt Photographer Homayra Adiba

BEAUTY CHECK Hair removal gone wrong

The popular character from the blockbuster “Pirates of the Caribbean” series, Jack Sparrow has been portrayed by the ever-so-versatile Johnny Depp. Again, the first movie being released in 2003, Jack Sparrow has been a very popular Halloween costume for almost ten years now and honestly, not everyone is as talented as Depp to pull it off and be charmingly irritating. Hence it’s time to avoid the Jack costume and get creative about your own idea of pirates.

Superhero/ Super heroine

Let’s face it, the Superman costume lost its charm decades ago and the release of “Man of Steel” isn’t a good reason for it to make a comeback. The Catwoman had been done so many times that it has lost its appeal, to be truthful. There are so many other wonderful options to choose from like of Iron Man, Flash,

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Wolverine, and so on.

Skanky EVERYTHING

Ladies, seriously, stop being the nurseslash-sailor-slash-devil in that short dress. Add your own oomph into it by experimenting with Poison Ivy, Ariel from X-men or Wonder Woman but try to keep the skin display to a bare minimum.

Be the trend-setter and have your friends fume with envy as you walk into a party daring to be different and making the dozens of Catwoman, Batman, and Jokers regretting not being in your shoes. Happy Halloween!

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A wedding in half an hour or a party to attend, the hair removal syndrome is always left to the very last moment. It’s like as if girls are deliberately trying to delay the process of being stripped, mowed, and bumped. We all know how much pain and atrocity our bodies go through while we mow through the immense amounts of hair on our body. No matter how many times we do it, the waxing, tweezing, and threading always sends chills down your spine. Here are some hairy scares that we all can do without

Hair removal cream

The innumerable hair removal creams and ads that promise to give you painless silky smooth skin are hoaxes.

If it were that painless, advertisements wouldn’t be so keen on pushing that one point across. While removing hair using creams, use the ones that go with your skin type. Remember to keep your skin type in mind while buying one.

Rushing to get done with this smelly mess, most women wash the sking surface with warm water and forget moisturising altogether. A cool shower and a mild moisturiser is essential to keep your skin feathery smooth.

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Tweezing tips

If you get it right, then this is a very easy way to remove a few strands of hair. First, rub warm water on your brows so that the pores will be more receptive and release hair easily. Draw out the curve with a light eye pencil and hold the surrounding eye area firmly. Grab the hair as close to the roots as possible. The crucial part is to be gentle. Pull gently in the direction that your hair naturally grows and it should easily come off.

Avoid tweezing at that time of the month as your skin may not be as responsive and use a numbing gel after to avoid infection.

Waxing scares

First things first, relax. Yes, it is easier said than done, but that one tip will take you a long way with bearing the pain. When you clench your teeth, squeeze your eyes shut or grab to the chair handles, your hair follicles constrict which causes a frictional resistance that leads to that mumbled screech every time the wax is stripped off of you. Avoid the sun for a day after waxing as the exposure may cause your skin to darken and form pigmentation.

Apply some aloe vera or tree-tea oil on your body to soothe the pores and give your skin the much needed ease it needs after a terrible hair removing session.

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STREET

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CAR TALK The Monster Masquerade

Like all great innovations, the monster truck was born out of one man’s frustration of not being content with what was available in the marketplace at that time. For those of us who were not around in the 80s, the “Bigfoot” monster truck was considered to be a part of the pop culture as much as the long hair, PacMan, the Rubik’s Cube, and water beds

FEAROSCOPE Aries (Mar 21-Apr 19)

If your palms are itching to spend some cash, stop right there. Take a good look at your wallet, and come back to your senses.

Taurus (Apr 20-May 20)

You’re confident as hell this week, and you’ll be getting what you want. Just don’t forget to give credit to those who helped out.

Gemini (May 21-Jun 20)

It might be one of those days where people will pressurise you to do their biddings. What’ll it be?

Suffer or succumb?

Cancer (Jun 21-Jul 22)

You’ll be full of spirit this week; so much that you might fail to see other people’s misery. Don’t be too surprised if they start giving you the stink eye.

Leo (Jul 23-Aug 22)

A loved one may get something you’ve been eyeing for a very long time. Expect to see an envious side to yourself.

Virgo (Aug 23- Sep 22)

Your life isn’t that bad; if you try to control it too much, you might end up jinxing things. Try not to take things for granted this week.

Libra (Sep 23- Oct 22)

Being competitive isn’t a bad thing, but if it becomes a personality then you might start working as a repellent for those around you.

Scorpio (Oct 23-Nov 21)

Bills and deadlines that need special attention this week.

Neglecting either one of them won’t serve you well. Get done with them, and fast!

Sagittarius (Nov 22-Dec 21)

It’s hard for us to imagine how things would be without a Bigfoot monster truck and the series of counter parts that followed its legacy. So in honour of Halloween, we present to you the scariest monster truck to have ever jumped, stomped, and smashed its way across the world, primarily as part of the Monster Jam series of showcase events.

Bigfoot is the biggest, baddest, loudest, and meanest monster on four wheels.

Originally built in 1975, the first Bigfoot was the pet project of Bob Chandler, a construction worker from the St Louis, Missouri. Chandler took the family truck, a 1974 Ford F-250, offroading frequently, but found out the shops in the area didn’t have the parts to upgrade or repair his constantly wrecked 4x4. Taking things into his own hands, Chandler, with wife Marilyn and

friend Jim Kramer, opened Midwest Four Wheel Drive and Performance Centre.

With oversized tires and a loud, powerful engine, Bigfoot soon became wellknown for being the promotional truck of the shop. Bigfoot’s first big break came in 1981, when Chandler got the go-ahead from a local farmer to crush two wrecked cars, which were abandoned in his field.

While carrying out the mischievous stunt, he kept a video camera rolling.

When a motorsport promoter saw the video playing in Chandler’s shop, he asked Chandler to perform the stunt again at the Pontiac Silverdome Stadium in Michigan. In 1983, Bigfoot got factory sponsorship from Ford Motor Company, an affiliation that lasted for more than 20 years till 2005. Even though there have actually been 20 Bigfoots to date, but it is often referred to in the singular, including

the one named Bigfoot Shuttle, built with a Ford Aerostar minivan body, and Bigfoot Fastrax built on a M48 military personnel carrier chassis. Closely allied with the Ford brand for decades, the truck briefly featured the body shell of a Chevrolet Silverado, although during competitions and exhibitions, the truck still featured a Ford body. However, in 1991, the Bigfoot team developed the first three-dimensional character bodied truck in the form of Snake Bite, with a custom fibre-glass body giving the truck a snakelike front clip. Since that time, numerous other teams have created custom-bodied monster trucks such as the Grave Digger, Batman, Jurassic Attack, El Toro Loco, Dragon’s Breath, Backwards Bob, Predator and Mohawk Warrior. tahsin momin

If you stretch trivial issues like chewing gum, then you risk making matters worse for yourself and others around you. Let go of this habit.

Capricorn (Dec 22-Jan19)

Being emotional is okay, but not so much to confide in every single person you know. Try keeping your life under wraps.

Aquarius (Jan 20-Feb 18)

If trouble is knocking on your door, try not to answer it.

Seek help from a friend, but try not to involve them entirely.

Pisces (Feb 19-Mar20)

Confident enough, but in the wrong areas. Try tweaking the wires in your mind. You’re not as dull as you consider think you are.

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hot topic

The sum of all Fear is one of those primal instincts, an indispensable part of the survival mechanism.

Without it, we’d have run headlong into danger and gotten ourselves extinct a long time ago. Because it clashes with other basic urges - hunger, thirst, lust, aggression, to name a few, our relationship with fear is a complicated one.

Join SABRINA FATMA AHMAD in an exploration of what gives us the heebie-jeebies

The Top 10 most common phobias in the world 1.

Arachnophobia the fear of spiders 2. Ophidiophobia the fear of snakes 3. Acrophobia the fear of of heights 4. Agoraphobia the fear of open spaces 5. Cynophobia the fear of dogs 6. Astraphobia the fear of thunder and lightning 7. Trypanophobia the fear of injections 8. Social phobias may include Social Anxiety Disorder (SAD), and Glossophobia (fear of public speaking), amongst others 9. Pteromerhanophobia the fear of flying 10. Mysophobia the fear of germs or dirt

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Jeeper

Recently, we polled some 50 readers on things they find scary, and the overwhelming majority (75%) answered with some kind of creature feature, spiders outnumbering flying cockroaches by a small margin, and birds coming up a close third, with miscellaneous creepy crawlies making up the rest. A significant number of answers pointed to anomalies happening at night (sudden sound, smell, dogs barking, complete darkness). The most interesting was a small percentage of our correspondents naming groupthink behaviours (such as consensus, mindlessly following talent shows, kitty parties etc) as “scary.”

The feeling of fear evolved as part of the fight-or-flight response inbuilt in every living

organism, that helps it assess risk and respond to it. In the caveman days, the biggest threats came from things like poisonous snakes and spiders, ginormous beasties that wanted to eat or crush you, and big rocks that landed on your head. Some of these things are still dangerous to us, and thus phobias like arachnophobia (fear of spiders), acrophobia (fear of heights) and astraphobia (fear of thunder and lightning) are pretty commonplace.

As we humans become more urbanised, though, and our realities change, so do our fears. They are fast becoming less organic and more abstract. With so many of our interactions happening online and over social network, the incidence of social phobias increased. Think about how many people you know that would rather text than call, and prefer chatting online than visiting.

As our contact with nature becomes more tenuous, we become more afraid of it for hygienic reasons, and thus you see so many people claiming to have OCD.

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the unsettling feeling you get when your brain is confused by a set of stimuli. The stimulus is usually an anomaly of some sort - like a newborn baby born with a full set of teeth. Your brain isn’t sure how to process that. Is that baby a threat, and therefore, to be treated with fear? Or is it funny weird?

Not convinced? Okay, how about this...you’re standing at the edge of a tall building, or facing the gaping maw of an empty elevator shaft. As you look down, along with the feeling of fear, you find yourself thinking about jumping. Admit it.

That’s happened to you. Even creepier, if you’re standing at the edge with a friend, no matter how dear, the thought of pushing that person will cross your mind, even if you’re not Dexter Morgan. This is

because on one hand, your lizard brain (the part that drives pure instinct) is screaming “Danger!

Danger!” On the other, the rest of your brain is remembering stuff you’ve read/watched on television about jumping, envisioning the end result, and calculating how easy it would all be. This causes what psychologists call "cognitive dissonance," the discomfort caused by two sets of conflicting emotions.

Let’s say you were stuck in a dark room with a spider the size of a goat singing “Sunday Morning Love you.” Your sense organs take in the spectacle, and shoot a rapid message to the thalamus in your brain. This in turn relays messages to two departments in the brain: the amygdala, which registers pure fear; and the prefrontal neocortex, which is the headquarter for reason and intellect. The first will cause you to break

out in cold sweat, scream, wet your pants, and all that kind of sexy stuff. The second will calm your boxers down and look for an exit strategy.

The good news is, the brain gives the bulk of the messages to the prefrontal neocortex, the amygdala receiving only 5% of the messages. The bad news is, the 5% reaches first, and pure fear is powerful enough to turn you into a wobbly mass of panic juice. The saving grace is, this lasts for a quarter second before reason and logic kick in, and you can point the spider towards a singing show while you backtrack and run the opposite way.

“The 3 types of terror: The Gross-out: the sight of a severed head tumbling down a flight of stairs, it's when the lights go out and something green and slimy splatters against your arm. The Horror: the unnatural, spiders the size of bears, the dead waking up and walking around, it's when the lights go out and something with claws grabs you by the arm. And the last and worse one: Terror, when you come home and notice everything you own had been taken away and replaced by an exact substitute.

It's when the lights go out and you feel something behind you, you hear it, you feel its breath against your ear, but when you turn around, there's nothing there...”

- Stephen King

things that scare you might seem mundane to others, and you’re okay with might be terrifying to someone else. As we e as a species, so do our fears, but one thing is certain: there’s anything more than a good scare to make you feel alive. photos: bigstock

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Into a darkened room Rafee Tamjid was studying film at the University of Hawaii when he has what he calls a “paranormal experience.” This piqued his curiosity in the occult and he went on to take a course called Adult Education, which discussed ghosts, spirits and the supernatural.

In 2012, he moved to Bangladesh and formed Dhaka Paranormal Society with Iftekhar Ift, Ifraz Chowdhury and Suhan Ahmed Omi. Together they began their quest to find the unknown forces that are living among us. In the spirit of Halloween, RUBAB NAYEEM KHAN walks you through their findings How do people react upon knowing what you guys are involved with?

Most people would get spooked upon knowing about our line of work. Some of them insist that what we do is scripted. In societies like ours, these practices are considered taboo which is why people become sceptical about the choices we make. But nowadays, wherever we go, people are aware of what we do and surprisingly they seem interested to know more about it.

There are so many reality shows in Dhaka. How is DPS any different from them?

Reality shows in general are somewhat predictable. What we are trying to do here in DPS is show the raw footage of our investigations. We don’t want to evoke fear in our audience by showing something that doesn’t exist in the first place. In fact, when we investigate a particular area for paranormal activities, our main incentive is to prove that the place is not haunted. Genre wise, our show is the first of its kind in Bangladesh. And it’s not just about us; we are giving students like ourselves a chance to come out and take part in a reality show such as ours. We aren’t professionals, but we certainly enjoy doing this. If we think something might go wrong, we don’t risk it.

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How do you conduct your investigations?

We sweep the places using thermal cameras and electromagnetic field metres in order to locate something out of the ordinary. We also occasionally use our cell phones because these are programmed to pick up electromagnetic pulses. Aside from that we conduct an Electronic Voice Phenomenon (EVP), where we ask questions in order to capture sounds which aren’t audible.

Once, our EVP session recorded a female voice. Isolation sessions are also a part of our investigations; one of us is made to sit in an empty room and the rest of us will monitor the activities using camera or audio recordings.

Before filming, we run a background check on the location that we’ll be investigating. It takes 4-5 days to perfect the shoots considering the fact that there are 25 hours of raw video footage. Some of our work is also based on audio recordings.

What does it bring the audience closer to?

It gives rise to the age old dilemma: are we really alone? Is there something else that exists amongst us? It also stresses on the factors that evoke fear in us. In other words it makes us question more about the things we don’t know.

What difficulties/dangers have you faced so far?

Rafee I have scratches on my hands, and for the longest time I’ve had the feeling that someone/something was pulling my leg in my sleep.

Iftekhar I saw an apparition in Old Dhaka.

Omi I felt something touching me during isolation session, which caused me to have a panic attack.

There were times when people freaked out upon knowing what we do to the extent that they didn’t allow us to stick around in their neighbourhood.

Are your families on board with DPS? Most of our parents think from an objective viewpoint regarding the issues we are dealing with. So far they have been encouraging us with our project; however, they are very concerned about our wellbeing. Regardless of their beliefs, they do worry about something going wrong.

Do you get scared?

Rafee Yes I do. I pray before going to bed, particularly the Ayatul Kursi.

Rafee, Iftekhar, Ifraz and Omi We are also worried about possession and bringing something home with us. Some of these spirits can get harmful and they can also scar you mentally.

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Dhaka Paranormal Society (DPS) was founded in August, 2012 Founder/Lead Investigator/ Tech Manager: Rafee Tamjid Public Relations/ Lead Investigator Iftekhar Ift Logistics/Investigator Ifraz Chowdhury and Suhan Ahmed Omi They are all students of Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB) Affiliations They are affiliated with the event management firmed named Mgt808 They shared stories with Bhoot FM last March Fun fact Rafee Tamjid is scared of flying

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Little bites of terror A small sampling of micro-fiction horror stories Unwanted Guest

You shouldn’t have come here, he said, slowly closing the door behind him.

I looked down at the glimmer of the blade he was holding.

Naveed Chowdhury

Bunk Bed

Feeling a hand brush my face, I whispered to my hostel mate on the top bunk to stop. He apologised and said he was only looking for his pencil, as his ashen fingers reached under my bed, stretching, stretching…

Azfar Islam

Not my cat

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“Dang cat got out again” farmer Joe muttered at the small figure scuttling

across the yard. Then he noticed its legs and counted eight.

Sabrina Fatma Ahmad

Shaon leaned against the wall, sitting up on the hotel bed, idly flicking through channels. The remote control flew out of his grip as a hand reached out from behind and grabbed his wrist.

Sabrina Fatma Ahmad

Selfie

Alone in the bathroom, I angled my cellphone, sucked in my cheeks and puffed out my lips for the perfect profile photo. And then I noticed the other face in the mirror, next to mine.

Sabrina Fatma Ahmad

related issues. And if you do happen to have an island all to yourself, you need to prep it right. In other words, food scarcity is bound to become an issue, in case of a zombie apocalypse and it is best if you can manage to grow your own. However if you don’t have an island, then living outside cities in isolated areas, like up in the mountains or by the sea, will provide the best chances of survival.

To finish quick, a small to-do list when faced with zombies: 1. Only way to kill is to cut off their heads.

2. Always wear tight clothes and have your hair trimmed short.

3. When fleeing, get out of your car and get onto a bike.

4. Keep moving, keep low, keep quiet, and always be alert.

5. No place is ever 100% safe. It is only safer.

6. The zombies may be gone, but it’s only temporary.

7. Don’t take risks or be carefree or foolish with your most precious asset – your life. FAHIM RAZZAQ

out in the dark October is never a good time to be in Gotham City. The glorifying aspects of horror and death only seem to trigger the inherent evil that lurks beneath the city and that’s the tone we get from The Long Halloween, a book that’s widely hailed as a modern day classic.

The paranoia and mayhem has spread to the various criminal mobs in Gotham who are being mysteriously killed off one by one, with each death taking place during a holiday, the book contains a truly unpredictable plot and provides an immersive experience for the readers as you truly feel the intrinsic fear within Batman and the people of Gotham as for once they’re not facing a super-villain but a mysterious threat

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Zombie Apocalypse Survival Guide When faced with a zombie apocalyps e, it will come as no surprise that every other walking dead out there is trying to eat you. So be sure to stick to this simple yet life saving guide as soon as you catch a zombie in sight.

1. Do not make the mistake of thinking you are safe, even if you see one zombie in sight. Where there is one, you can be sure there are others nearby. Just watch a few episodes of Walking Dead and you’ll find out for yourself.

2. One can never be too prepared for anything. It is important to have a stash of supplies stowed away somewhere safe and are easily accessible. Simply put a fully prepped first aid kit, essential food stuff, and weapons such as knives and bows.

Guns are never a good idea because ammo is always a problem and too much noise and all it does is attracts zombies.

3. The ideal location of your home should be a small manageable island. Being surrounded by water solves almost all kinds of zombie

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that lurks within them.

Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale work beautifully in tandem, Sale’s art impeccably illustrating the horror that Batman and the people are facing with dark subtlety while Harvey Dent’s transformation to Two-Face is depicted, it will tempt you to sleep with the lights on.

Its purposeful artwork combined with a truly mysterious plot, The Long Halloween lives up to the hype and it’s no coincidence that elements from the book form the basis for Christopher Nolan’s highly successful cinematic trilogy – a perfect read for a suspiciously silent October night.

“JK Rowling is to make her screenwriting debut in a new Harry Potter-themed film series.”

That’s right, a Harry Potter spin-off movie series! Hyperventilating out of excitement yet? Oh you will. Read on.

Warner Bros said the film series was part of an “expanded creative partnership” with the best-selling author, JK Rowling. However, Warner Bros has given no indication as to when exactly the film could actually go into production. The first film of the series will be titled Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.

In a 2001 interview about the book with publisher Scholastic, Rowling stated that she chose the subject of magical creatures because it was a fun topic for which she had already developed a lot of information in earlier Harry Potter books. As a matter of fact, Rowling’s name does not even appear on the cover of the book, it being credited under the pseudonym “Newt Scamandar”- the actual author of the book inside the magical world.

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them was—as in Harry’s schoolbooks within the novels—a Hogwarts textbook written by one Professor Newton Artemis Fido “Newt” Scamander, a magizoologist, and published in 1927.

Scamander was born in 1897 and was interested in the magical beasts from an early age, greatly influenced by his mother’s breeding of Hippogriffs.

After attending and graduating from Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, Scamander joined the Ministry of Magic. After spending two years in the office for HouseElf Relocation, the fictional writer joined the Beast Division and put his knowledge of magical beasts to good use in 1918, when he finally is set to write the book “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.”

So, good news Potterheads, the commercial success of the Harry Potter books and films, which made stars of Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson, guarantees this new film will be a hit. We can assure you this is the time to sing for us fans and a time to rejoice and dance because while this is nor a prequel or a sequel to our all-time loved Harry Potter series, it is an extension of the wizarding world we so love and getting to see more of the magic is, we sure are, equally exuberant. Montaha Absar

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Artist michael jackson Song thriller Verse 1: C#m7 F#7 It’s close to midnight, and something evil’s, lurking in the dark.

C#m7 Under the moonlight, you see a sight, that almost stops your heart.

F#7 C#m7 You try to scream, but terror takes the sound, before you make it.

F#7 C#m7 You start to freeze, as horror looks you right between the eyes; G#m You’re para-lyzed.

Chorus: C#m E E F# C#m ‘Cos this is; Thril-ler, Thril-ler Night; F#7 F#m7 And no one’s gonna save you from the beast about to strike.

C#m E E F# C#m You know it’s; Thril-ler, Thril-ler Night; F#7 A7 F#7 (C#m7) You’re fighting for your life, inside a killer, Thriller, to-night.

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If you’re reading this, you’ve probably watched your fair share of sci-fi or horror movies and are acquainted with the bizarre sound that scares the life out of us. The sound that you find in the most horrifying moments of a film. Still wondering which sound? Look up the Waterphone. We believe it is time that you know some of the strangest sounds in movies and television come out of equally strange musical instruments. If you’ve seen a science fiction or horror movie in the last fifty years, then the dissonant sounds of the Waterphone are almost guaranteed to have sent cold shivers down your spine at some point.

Invented by Richard Waters in the late 1960s, the Waterphone has been used in film scores and sound effects in movies as diverse as Poltergeist, The Matrix and of course, in all Alfred Hitchcock movies.

It is quite easy to hear why this particular instrument could seriously score your

nightmares.

The Waterphone is a modern invention that is in someway related to the Tibetan water drum. According to Richard Waters, the Waterphone in part relates to this design as well as the nail violin, which also used a resonator and rods (nails), and is struck with a stick or bowed to get a variation in its sound output.

Interestingly, the Waterphone can also be taken under water, and on several occasions it has been used successfully to call whales and other under water creatures. The Waterphone is a highly complicated instrument. It is as they say “more than meets the eye.” Richard Waters himself, to this day, personally builds, tunes, signs, and dates every Waterphone he sells - a production process he claims took him 20 years to master.

Auditorium, Plot 24/A, Road 13/A, Sector 6, Uttara. The show starts at 2:20pm and the tickets will be available at the venue at Tk250 a pop.

For more details, visit https://www.facebook.com/ events/208033049371904

Sodom, Destruction, Violator and Toxic Holocaust as their influence. Despite being a new addition to the concert scene, Exalter has already performed in high profile shows such as The Bengal Regiment, Local Maniac Syndrome, etc. Their motive is to remind people the early stage of thrash metal. Already starting to amass a decent following, Exalter is currently working on their upcoming EP, concentrating on recording more and more old school

stuff. Initially, they have revealed a demo titled “White Phosphorus Shell” which can be streamed from reverbnation.com.

Their debut EP is to be released soon.

Tanim, tells TMAG, “Sit tight, wait for our EP and get ready to taste some old school thrash madness and we’ll make sure you won’t find a way to survive in the moshpit circle.” So, stay raw and wait for Exalter’s attack.

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Get Amped 6 The November rain will shower you with melodies of quality bands. The “Get Amped Series” is bringing their sixth episode of Get Amped concert featuring Black, Arbovirus, Powersurge, Mechanix, Karnival, Trainwreck, Thrash, Owned, Minerva, Poraho, and Absentia at BSCIC Auditorium in Uttara on 1st November.

This show will be the first of its kind in Uttara, and the performances by these bands will definitely blow you away!

The concert is organised by Get Amped Series. Venue: BSCIC

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1 Like a river (Sunken Foal Remix) Goodtime 2

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Dance dark at the dead disco Graveyard Love

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3 Mila don’t make a sound Eurekabirds 4 Icicle

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Sweet Religion Imogen Heap

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Frozen World Emilie Simon

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Up jumped the Devil Nick Cave & Bad Seeds

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The Crossover The Blackened Trees

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What kind of girl Kid Moxie

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Exalter’s Attack Exalter is a newfound name in the revival of thrash metal. These ruthless thrashers from Dhaka consists of only three members; Tanim on bass and vocals, Tahsein as the lone guitarist and Shuvo on drums.

Exalter was founded in February as a dream project for Tanim and Tahsein.

These two ardent thrashers decided to create some ruthless thrash metal music. Shuvo has been assigned on drums soon after. Their goal was always to help spread thrash metal music around the country from their small hall of insanity.

Exalter cites old school thrash bands such as Slayer, Sepultura,

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A sleepy twist Like many new shows, Sleepy Hollow is no exception to the big budget presentation. And just like the recent crop of old tales on TV and film, this has also been given a modern twist.

The show begins in 1781 New York, during a battle between the American Revolutionary and the British Red Coats. We are introduced to the story’s main character, Ichabod Crane and his monstrous rival, the Headless Horseman. After an unfortunate incident, both are resurrected to the modern day village of Sleepy Hollow, and the horror begins. Now Crane, with the assistance of Lt. Abbie Mills, must solve a mystery that dates back centuries. Their fates are intertwined in the fight against evil.

There’s unavoidable comparisons

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to the film starring Johnny Depp in 1999.

Apart from the actual tale of terror, the entire setting has been shifted. There are suspicious characters in abundance of today’s standard, and they are creepy in their own creative ways. The show is well shot and directed, giving you a chilling perspective of heads being cut off. Yes, there’s plenty of that. Not to worry though, the gore is toned down to a satisfying level.

The chill factor is pleasantly surprising.

In other words, you might have to turn on

a light or two to keep you from getting goose bumps. You’ll be wanting more of the entertaining cast and its story after watching the first 10 minutes. The show does a fantastic job of keeping the audience hooked to the screen. You are left with more questions than answers, and realise that the Headless Horseman isn’t the only terrifying problem that will plague Sleepy Hollow. Seems like the decapitation of an evil entity, from a single slash of the blade, has opened the gates of hell. Mahmood Hossain

Outlast this Haunting Grounds Is James Wan the most promising name in horror right now? It would be hard to argue otherwise. The Malaysian-ChineseAussie made his explosive debut with the tongue-in-cheek gore-fest Saw, an film unfairly maligned as “torture porn” by those who failed to see Wan’s fresh and ingenious reworking of the horror genre.

Wan’s fifth feature film The Conjuring is a loving tribute to that oh-so popular subgenre of horror: the haunted house movie. And rarely has it been done this well.

The film comes with its “based on real events” disclaimer. It’s safe to say Wan has taken a few liberties with the actual records and made a few things up. If not, this film would serve as definite proof that the scariest supernatural stuff ever indeed exists.

The Conjuring is based on a case file of the Warrens, a married couple who are top notch paranormal investigators, played by Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga.

A family moves into a big house. The house has creaky floors and a hidden cellar full of really old stuff. There are

strange noises at night. Claps, giggles, doors opening and shutting by themselves.

The dog refuses to enter the house, birds mysteriously fly straight into the window and bang their heads. The family goes to the professional paranomalists for help.

This could sound like the synopsis for just about any other entry in the haunted house genre, including Wan’s own previous effort “Insidious”. The magic here is in the execution. A master of timing, he knows how to build up the tension and deliver the boo moments exactly at the right time to scare the bejesus out of you.

If you want to nitpick, you can find plenty of flaws with this one. You could say it fails on the script level, that you don’t care about the wellbeing of the characters, that the story lacks coherence and seems more like a random assemblage of scary things. But why bother? It succeeds where it needs to.

For those who enjoy a good scary movie but hate torture and gore, The Conjuring is a treat.

emptiness. A vaguely humanoid figure retrieves it, and immediately finds himself beset by hordes of other humanoid figures (of various shapes and sizes), who want the heart for themselves.

The bizarre, faceless creatures, the spine-tingling sound effects, and the eerie

music by Joseph Trapanese (Tron Uprising) work together to create an experience that is mildly disturbing and deeply thoughtprovoking at the same time.

“Heart” has won multiple awards, and is available for viewing on Youtube and Vimeo. Sabrina Fatma Ahmad

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Halfway between the spectrum that has “funny” on one end and “scary” on the other, is a zone occupied by all things creepy. If there’s ever a video that captures the essence of things we find creepy, it’d have to be “Heart,” an animated short by California-based animator Erick Oh. The skinny – A bright red heart falls off a skeleton tree in a monochrome

Halloween Besides all activities associated with Halloween, playing a game that sends chills down your spine is an experience not to be turned down. Therefore, TMAG brings to your attention a game that is worthy of the scary and chill factors.

“Outlast,” the brainchild of indie game developers Red Barrels Games was released on September 4. In-game you play the character of the world’s brave yet stupid journalist who ventures into a dark and abandoned insane asylum.

The entire game is in first-person mode and there are no weapons available to your character. The only things disposable to you is a night-vision camera and your ability to run.

To further enhance the scare factor, frequently using the camera drains its battery giving you even more reasons to run. The game has the hallmarks of most horror games, creaky roof panels, dark corners, ghoulish silhouettes near doors to mention a few. Being chased by ghouls, you will be forced to run through dark, bloody hallways and into rooms where you will want to hide underneath beds. Only to realise that you have been discovered and you start running for your dear life again.

To sum it up, this title is a perfect fit for a terrifying game experience on Halloween. The game does have blood and it should be advised that it is not for the faint of heart. fuad m hossain

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Are you afraid of scary movies, the dark, creepy spiders, ghosts and vampires...and all that?

Maybe you shouldn’t be.

Actually, if you are brave, you could actually become as scary as them! Take this quiz to write a scary story and find out how scary yours really is. Do you think you’re scary enough?

Question 1

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One day, with a blow of the wind, a ... crept into a haunted house and howled into the night.

A Vampire B Werewolf C Ghost D Half-man E Witch

When they opened the door, the creature jumped out and ... six of them.

A Sucked the blood out of B Swallowed C Scratched and killed D Took the brain out of E Quartered

Question 2

Then, it threw the six of them into a ... nearby.

A Poisonous lake B Alligator swamp C Pit with snakes D Pit with boiling water E Green gooey lake

Then, it started looking for something.

At last it found it. It was a...

A Treasure map B Skeleton C Block of frozen blood D Skull E Human brain

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Question 3 It hauled it into the bushes and disappeared. The next day, two teenage hunters found a ... leading the way to where the creature went.

A Trail of blood B Trail of sand C Trail of brain juice D Trail of footprints E Trail of water drops

Question 4 It looked gruesomely freaky because the creature had just killed someone.

The two teenagers...

A Shivered B Glared C Gasped D Grinned E Complemented

Question 5 One of them decided that it would be a better idea to call some other people. The other said: “...”

A It is probably a good idea B It might be better if we face it on our own C This is a great chance to show off how brave we really are D This time we can finally track down a monster!

E We’re gonna be famous soon

Question 6 So, the two hunters along with some other brave people and they followed the trail. In the afternoon, they reached a giant...

A Haunted house B Antique graveyard C Haunted castle D Smelly graveyard E Spooky forest

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If your answers are: Mostly A’s are 10% scary Hey, you probably aren’t scary enough to take this quiz yet. You’ve got to be very scary. Your answers are probably a little bit too calm and bland.

Mostly B’s are 20% scary Your percentage is probably not a good one because it isn’t scary enough to make a horror story.

A Shadow in the Night Ridwan’s family is settled abroad and they usually come back for the winter every year. They live in a four-storied building owned by his grandparents. The entire family occupy the first three floors. The fourth floor has been vacant for the past one year now as the previous two tenants complained about supernatural occurances. This one night, Ridwan and two of his cousins thought of checking out the fourth floor as none of them believed in supernatural things.

It was very late when they opened the locks on the main door. The apartment was dusty, dark and gave off the feeling of being haunted. Ridwan felt something on his shoulders, he screamed only to find out that it was nothing but a spider. After a good laugh, they went from room to room searching for anything other than ordinary. They opened the bedroom door, they notice red

marks on the wall. Was it a prank?

One of Ridwan’s cousins was looking elsewhere when he saw it. The being on his left seemed to be 8-9 feet tall, the colour almost fluorescent and hair as long as 6 feet covering what should have been “her” face. He and Ridwan jolted towards the main door to get out and locked it behind them. After dashing out, they recalled that the other cousin was still inside. No matter how hard they try, they could not open the door. It was only in the morning when everyone got to know and the door was brought down. They found the boy in the bathtub, fainted, feverish, and with red scratch marks covering his body.

The boy was traumatised to an extent that he could not recollect what happened. Ridwan noticed that there was a new mark on the wall as if with fresh blood. The apartment has been vacant ever since. Baizid Haque Joarder

Mostly C’s are 30% scary Not scary enough

Mostly D’s are 40% scary Hey, you’re halfway there. You are not scary enough yet. The first step of being frightening is thinking about ghosts and vampires even though you’re getting scared yourself. Then your brain will force you to be as terrifying stuff.

Mostly E’s are 60% scary Mostly E’s are pretty scary. You are deadly. You have the “gift” of imagining situations which are gruesome, to say the least.

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Choose or Lose I find it very creepy when my boyfriend keeps tabs on me. We get along well, but the only thing that bothers me is him snooping on me. I want to think what we have is very special but this habit of his is very annoying and honestly I’m beginning to have second thoughts about our relationship and I don’t like this feeling either. How do I turn this around without having to break things off with him?

Lose!

If you’ve been together for a long time, then you should tell him not to doubt your loyalty. If he fails to understand that, then you might as well let this one go.

I appreciate how concerned my girlfriend is for me, but sometimes it goes to the point where she starts suffocating me. I understand we are in a relationship, but I need my own space, and if I tell her that she questions my affections. I like her a lot, but I have a really hard time explaining her that my life doesn’t revolve around dating. How I do this without hurting her feelings?

Choose!

It’s not such a bad thing to have someone care about you. However, you might want to explain it to her calmly that you want some space. While you’re at it, give her some credit for showing concern.

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