Hot Saturday afternoon

It's getting really hot today - 42 degC. I wonder how can people survive here when the humidity starts rising too??? But apparently some plants seem to be enjoying the heat. I notice some kind of small shrubs/ grass growing in abundance lately with the rising mercury. Seems to be everywhere giving rise to small patches of green around the desert area.

Have been watching a Chinese series - 血色残阳 (don't know it's English title) for the past few days. First time I've been following a Chinese show since I've arrived in UAE. The show is from China and is about the conspiracies and rivalry of a big Chinese family somewhere in the early 1900's. Plenty of mystery, dark secrets and murderous plots. Overly exaggerated but at the same time an interesting story to follow. Each episode reveals a bit of new secret and it keeps you intrigued all the way. Murder, kidnap, rape, poisoning, love, romance - they have it all. The actors & actresses are good (though I've never seen them before).

The show is shown on the New Tang Dynasty (NTD) channel which is an overseas Chinese satellite TV channel based in New York. Another interesting thing about this channel is its obsession with opposing the communist party in China. My Chinese series is interrupted all the time with advertisements calling the communist party an evil organization. Talk about political propaganda.