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Dhaka Tribune Wednesday, February 12, 2014 Volume 1, Issue 42

Tales From the City Episodes 38: 37: change of heart

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Jonaki's Headquarters Hey friends, Since its February, it’s time to bid farewell to winter. You know what that means? Spring will soon be knocking on your door, February 13th onwards.

Make sure you stop to smell the flowers and wear lots of yellow clothing.

While you’re at it, don’t forget to check out the math competition

sponsored by Aloha Bangladesh and Dhaka Reading Race Interschool Challenge held at Monasa Learning Centre in Gulshan.

Flip through the pages to check out the art tutorials, magic tricks and much much more. Send in your poems, artwork and messages to us. We love hearing from you.

Love Jonaki

EVENTs A weekly production of

DhakaTribune

Math made easy

Editor Zafar Sobhan

Aloha Bangladesh is holding its “7th National Aloha Abacus & Mental Arithmetic Festival" at Shahid Suhrawardy Indoor Stadium, Mirpur on February14.

Students from numerous schools based in Dhaka, Chittagong, Rangpur, and Rajshahi will participate in the exam. It’s a five minute exam where a student needs to answer 70 problems.

Magazine Editor Sabrina Fatma Ahmad Treehouse Team Sabiha Mahmud Sumi Rubab Nayeem Khan Munira Fidai Fuad M Hossain Natasha Rahman Saudia Afrin Tahsin Momin Baizid Haque Joarder Contributor Syed Azraf Zaman Faizah Aziz Sama E Deen Avita Maheen Namira Shameem

Dhaka Reading Race Interschool Challenge Love to read? Well look no further!

Monasa Learning Centre in Gulshan invites you to its reading competition Dhaka Reading Race Interschool Challenge.

Cartoonist Syed Rashad Imam Tanmoy Rio Shuvo

The class that reads the most minutes altogether wins a Pizza Party at Pizza Roma. The reading competition begins from March 1 and will finish by the end of the month.

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Graphics Sabiha Mahmud Sumi Mohammed Mahbub Alam Colour Specialist Shekhar Mondal Kazi Syras Al Mahmood Production Masum Billah Advertising Shahidan Khurshed Circulation Wahid Murad Email treehouse@dhakatribune.com Website www.dhakatribune.com WED N ESDAY, FEB RUA RY 1 2, 2014

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Mythical creature of the week Medusa Meet the artist Barbie - Ruth Handler Event Sumbeams Ruby Jubilee Word on the street Power of play

3 Tales from the city Change of heart

4 Bhootum’s Classroom British Council Connect the dots Jokes Colour guide

5 Speedy’s Zone

Toy Mind Bogglers Movie The Nut Job Video game Zombieville USA 2 Art tutorial Drawing Buttercup

6 Dr Meow’s Lab

Magic tricks Card tricks My pet story V & Victoria DIY Fun with colours Fun science Tin can phone

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Discobang's Pad Meet the artist

Doesn’t every single girl have at least one Barbie doll from their childhood? Of course they do! Collecting Barbie dolls is quite a hobby for a big number of girls.

But did you know that this legendary Barbie doll was named after Barbara, who was the daughter of the inventor, Ruth Handler? Ruth was also the co-founder of the Mattel toy company that she founded with Harold Mattson. She was a great writer, and her writings were usually for kids. Her famous books are Barbie in the Nutcracker, Detective Barbie: Mystery of the Carnival Caper and Barbie Riding Club. She believed that through the doll, a little girl could imagine herself as anything she wanted to be. Handler died at the age of 85 but the Barbie dolls live on as every little girl’s first friend even to this day!

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word on the street

The power of play!

In the streets of Dhaka, among the rush of busy people and the voices of people fighting, there is a home of peace that lives within the soul of street kids. They know how to find happiness in simple things and accept the simple joys in life. Have you ever just stopped by to watch how they play? Their excitement about the games they play, whether it is spinning tops or five stones, make it all the more fun to watch.

So, when you pass the street kids playing with yoyos or spinning tops and other toys, try to see the world through their eyes. Perhaps, their catching energy will reach you and help you forget those daily burderns and just enjoy the simplicity of life.

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mythical creature of the week

Poisonous Pride In Greek mythology, Medusa was a beautiful, young woman with beautifully long, silky hair. She lived in the city of Athens in Greece, and while there were many pretty women in the city, Medusa was considered by far the most beautiful.

Medusa was proud of her own beauty, loving herself even as she looked at her mirror every day.

One day, Medusa was in the temple of Athena, the goddess of wisdom, who looked over the city of Athens. Medusa in her pride made silly comments, saying that she was far prettier than Athena.

Athena was so angry that she turned Medusa’s face into that of a monster.

Medusa’s beautiful hair began to twist and turn into horrible hissing serpents, and her milky white skin became a sickly green tint.

Athena told Medusa that her pride had done this to her, and that looking

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at her face will turn men to stone.

Medusa was sent away to the ends of the earth, so that innocents would not be

accidentally turned into stone. afshan sattar

EVENT

Sunbeams Ruby Jubilee – 40 years of learning together Sunbeams school held a “Ruby Jubilee” fair on February 8, a daylong celebration of 40 years of learning and growing together for the Sunbeams family. The students and teachers

worked together at the various food and entertainment stalls. All the money from the event will be used to help the Rana Plaza Survivors, preselected by Sneha Foundation.

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Treehouse Comics

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Created by Sabrina Fatma Ahmad Story by Sabrina Fatma Ahmad Illustration by Rio Shuvo

Tales From the City

Episode 38: change of heart

The story so far Jonaki has finally escaped the human boy. Or has she?

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Bhootum's Classroom jokes

What has a face and two hands but no arms or legs?

A clock!

What has to be broken before you can use it?

A An egg.

What goes up and doesn’t come back down?

Your age.

What is the easiest way to double your money?

Put it in front of the mirror of course!

What has a neck but no head?

A bottle.

What belongs to you but is used more by others?

Your name.

What has a thumb and four fingers but is not alive?

A glove.

colour guide

What gets wetter as it dries?

A towel.

What do prisoners use to call each other?

Cell phones

connect the dots

Blue+Red= Purple

Colouring certainly is fun. But mixing colours to get another colour is even more so. If you're wondering how you could do that, our colour guide should teach you everything you wanted to know about mixing colours.

Red+Yellow= Orange Red+Green= Brown White+Red= Pink Blue+Yellow= Green

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Find lots more fun things to do at: www.britishcouncil.org/learnenglishkids

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Speedy's Zone

It’s a Tough Nut to Crack Surly the naughty, selfish squirrel likes to work on his own, while the rest of the squirrels are led by the Raccoon. All of them are busy hunting and gathering nuts to store away for the winter. But there seems to be a shortage. The Raccoon announces that there are not enough nuts for them all! Now what?

That’s when we see Surly and his friend, the Rat trying to steal nuts from a nut-cart for themselves. He is not at all worriedabout his other friends who are

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Unlocking your mind Change dull times to fun filled entertainment, with the help of the strategy based board game “Mind Bogglers” which will keep you hooked. For those of you who face problems while doing math, you can improve with the help of this game for it involves a lot of critical thinking.

This board game has two different sets of games in it, the first being “The Nine Men’s Morris”, where you set up pawns on three different lines and protect them while reducing your op-

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afraid to die of hunger.

From then on, we see Surly getting mixed up in a much bigger robbery and go on adventures filled with action and laughter. The movie is goofy, and a good one to watch in your free time. It is also available in 3D which makes it more enjoyable. Here comes “The Nut Job” to add to your collection of animal movies like Madagascar, Kung Fu Panda, Ice Age, Ratatouille and the likes.

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ART Tutorial

ponent’s number of pawns to win. The other game is “Crossing the river” where you would need to need your mathematical and memory skills to reach the empty rocks before your opponent, to win. One other of winning is by knocking down your opponents.

Check out this awesome board game out for yourself. “Mind Bogglers” is priced roughly around Tk1,200 and is available in Lavender.

Drawing BUBBLES

Syed Azraf Zaman

Step 1

Zombies Take Over In Zombieville USA, you start by choosing your character. You can be a doctor with good healing powers, a sneaky ninja who’s good with hammers and swords, a police or pirate good with guns and much more. You can hunt for coins and bullets and protect yourself with over 15 weapons that may be upgraded. With these weapons in hand (which you can use only two at a time) you need to kill as many zombies as possible and run forward to finish each level.

Every level gets harder as faster zombies

with more powers come and attack you. In some levels, however, you might get lucky and get a partner to help you out, or a ride such as a car, helicopter or ambulance to drive you through the whole level!

When zombies have taken over your town, there is nothing else to do but steal from their houses and battle through to survive. But how long can you stay alive?

Find out by playing this game, available on android/iOS devices.

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Our TV screens always keep refreshing; we see it in a smooth wave because this happens very fast!

The Olympic gold medal actually contains mostly silver.

The strawberries we eat are not actually berries.

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Some honeybees can quack!

The famous painting by Leonardo da Vinci, Mona Lisa, has no eyebrows.

The crocodiles have the ability to eat rocks.

Owls cannot move their eyeballs, and so need to turn their entire heads to switch views.

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The Pixar team planned out “A Bug’s Life”, “Monsters Inc.” and “Wall E” during a lunch meeting at Hidden City Café.

The Hummingbirds are the only birds in the bird family that can fly backwards. This is because they have the ability to switch each of their wings in a circle, one by one.

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Color Card Trick DIY

WHAT A COLOURFUL LIFE Spray paints are cool. Spray paints are fun. But it’s not always that we get the colours that we want.

So why not grab some simple supplies and make your own colour sprays!

What you need • Empty spray bottles • Different acrylic paints • Water Instructions Open an empty spray bottle and pour one part water and two parts acrylic paints of your choice into the bottle. Close the bottle and shake vigorously to mix the colours well. Press the nozzle to check whether the coloured water isn’t too thick. Your spray paint is now ready for some action. Use different acrylic paints to make different coloured sprays. sama e deen

What you need • A deck of cards Instructions 1. Secretly separate the cards into two decks of black & red, and keep in mind which colour you place on top.

2. Ask your friend to choose one card from the top by fanning out the top few cards.

3. Again, fan out the bottom few cards and tell them to put their chosen card near the bottom of the pack.

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Split the deck in the middle, and place the bottom half on the top to shuffle. (It is ok if you have not split exactly in the middle.)

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friend’s card. The card they chose should be the only different one between the other colored cards.

Laugh at the surprised look on your friend’s face. munira fidai

Science

HELLO HELLO! Mobile phones, cordless phones, the rage of the Tabs and Notes is on, so the old fashioned tin-can phone might seem super old and boring but it is an idea that promises to be fun and educative and of course less harmful.

What you need • Two open tin cans • Duct Tape • Nail • Hammer • String • Markers, glitter, other decorations • Parental guidance

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Cut a long length of string up to 10 feet and insert one end of the string through the bottom of one can.

Knot it on the inside and do the same with the other can.

Take a can and tell your friend to take the other can. Move apart until the string is taut.

One of you should put a can to your ear while the other talks directly into the can.

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Make fun noises and have a conversation while the sound travels through the wire.

How it works It’s fun physics. When you speak, your voice makes vibrations, which travel down the stretched string and vibrates the bottom of the can. The tin vibrations, vibrates the air and these vibrations travel from the can to the other person’s ear! It’s a whole big vibration thing. Sama E Deen

my pet story

V & Victoria I was always a dog lover. So, when my sister bought me a pair of turtles for my 15th birthday, I wasn’t sure if I could take care of them properly.

The first thing you do when you have a pet is name them. But honestly, since I had not much interest in keeping those turtles, I didn’t name them. Secondly, you have to make a proper home for the pet. If you’re wondering that if I did, yes I did! It was a beautiful big aquarium with a huge mineral and many colorful corals and marbles in it. Thirdly, you have to

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feed them timely. I did that too. When I fed them I used to stare at them for hours. And I realized they weren’t that bad. I used to spend time with them, at times talk. Then came a time when they would be very happy to see me, because they knew I would feed them, play with them and what not. After all they were not at all bad as pets. So, finally I named them. The male turtle is called “V” and the female “Victoria.”

They make a beautiful couple, I must say! Bushra Faiza

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