It's getting hotter...

I've been feeling it for a few days. It's becoming hotter out here. Really hot.
It's just when I thought how much more hotter could it get.
I mean, I have been doing my stuff - like going to the gym during Qatar's siesta time (1 pm - 4 pm), going to the beach, going scuba diving, walking to roads for cabs, doing my assignments etc. I never have till now let the heat stop me from doing anything.
Life must go on, is the statement on which the place where I come from moves every single day. But now I am kinda getting the hint when people say, "It gets ridiculously hot in July-August. It's killing."
And it's not like the Delhi heat, where no matter how hot it is, you can still breathe it. Here, the air is thick. It's like you're under a blanket. Try and take a long breath in but you'll feel nothing going in. It's that thick. As if you were under water.
It's the humidity (84% today according to the weather channel). The moisture in the air makes the air bloody thick. And trust me on the thickness. I wouldn't be blogging about it.
But no matter how hot it gets, The Qatar Met Depeartment would never ever reveal the truth as to what the temperature it was. Reasons range from not wanting to cause panic among expats to people would not reach for work that day. It's a rule that if the temperature goes beyond 50 degrees C all offices are to observe a holiday. No one must work.
And this, Qatar cannot afford.
So, it's the weather section of the paper every expat checks first thing in the morning. But strangely enough, it's (almost) never above 50 degrees, unless the temperature goes up to 53 degrees and the Met Department itself don't reach work. Then they'll acknowledge it's 50 degrees!
I started feeling the rise last week when I opened my room window to have a smoke. And I realised I was feeling suffocated outside. Inside, I thought was much fresher!
The concept of fresh air does not exist here actually. I don't think so.
People - unless they're construction workers, labourers basically, who work 24/7 to get overtime money - are not out in the sun at any given point of time for more than three minutes. It's an unwritten rule. You're not supposed to be, unless you're a freak like me from Delhi, who's trying to test his luck and the Sun's patience, or you want to suffer a heat stroke, or a heart attack maybe.
Yeah, people suffer heart attacks here because of the heat. Especially the construction workers. There have been several cases where workers have just passed out while working and then declared dead because of a cardiac arrest!
Anyway, now I really know what desert heat is.
But who said I'm going to let it get to me. Call me arrogant if you wish (anyway lots of "anonymous" fools have already labelled me that), but I'm still going to test it.
I keep telling everyone out here, "It's not that bad." Obviously the reaction I get is just one - raised eyebrows.
My motivation is the construction workers. There are hundreds out here because Qatar has just simple gone beserk building towers after towers, trying to meet a deadline of 157 new towering buildings in 505 days (i think) before the Asian Games begin.
And all of these buildings are the classiest piece of architecture at least I have ever seen.
I see those construction workers working in this heat wearing those thick blue/yellow suits and helmets in piles of mud and stone, and I am sure I can at least wait outside my house for maybe 15-20 minutes to get a cab.
It's a different matter, in those 15-20 minutes I can pass off as a person who by mistake fell in the salty-like-hell sea with his clothes on!

Nevertheless, the show must go on.