Finger-prints; blood test; x-ray...

Hundreds of foreigners come into Qatar every week. All with more or less the same reason - make money, and save it.
Though the main reason is the same, there are a number of sub-roots to it. There is a section which comes to make money because there is none in their own country. They wish to make a few bucks to send back home so that their families can eat more than just one meal a day.
Another group here is just sick of the slogging they have to do to earn the amount they do in their own county... Meeting deadlines, hearing the boss hurling abuses at you, the work pressure, the competition. So they're here to live a hassle-free life. Make 10,000 riyal a month, stay in a posh villa with a swimming pool in it, work without the boss (who anyway doesn't know anything) screaming at you, go to office at 10 am, work till 1pm, drive back home in your Merc, sleep till 4 pm (1-4 is ciesta time here. Nobody works during these three hours. Nobody.), then drive back to work and stay there till 7pm, probably pick your wife up, who's earning another 10 grand for doing the same thing, go back home. And probably every summer vacation go for a Cruise or a holiday to an exotic Island, which is all paid for by your employer.
And there's another section, which according to me, includes all the damn Mallus out here. They go to work, come back from work, eat their idli saambar in the morning, afternoon, and night, and even the ones who've been here for 2-3 years don't know any other street except their own office's. They save every penny they earn, hoping that one day, maybe 10 years later, they'll go back and start a business of their own, and probably for the first few months bullshit about how luxuriously they were living in Qatar, and how they were treated like kings. They'll probably even buy a 10-Riyal pair of shades and say they're orginal Harley Davidson shades. (Oh yes, I hate these Mallus).
And then there's a section, a very small one, which includes people like me, who come here to see why so many people come here. To know how important money is and can be certain humans.
But no matter which group you belong to, or who you are, everyone has to stand in the never-ending queues... to get their finger-printing done (like criminals, literally), get your x-ray done, and your blood test (in case you got any disease or illness, you're deported immediately).
It could be a new British CEO of a company standing right behind a Nepalese toilet cleaner!
I personally enjoy these rare sights. Never came across them in India.
it's unbelievable the number of new things I am seeing, learning, just by living one month away from India, in another land, another world.
The whole day today I have been meaning to write a story I have been working on for the past week. It's about Nepalese laborours who come here with a dream, suffering like hell. Since january 52 Nepalese men have died here. 34 of them of heart attacks, and the rest were suicides. ALL OF THEM WERE BELOW THE AGE OF 40!.
I'll upload the story the minute it gets published here...