Being a puppet...

I was strongly pressured from Tokyo from the morning, and I had no power at all to resist the indirect orders. It hurts more when I'm told that "everybody here in Tokyo thinks that it should be done", rather than directly being ordered to do something. I'm just some kind of a puppet correspondent and as I'm compensated with money from an organization, I have no right to fight back. There's so many reports from everywhere in the world that workers are being laid off and salary cuts are hitting every person, it's really hard to once again pursue the dream of declaring independence like a while ago. So, though I really had other plans about when and how to write about the internal affairs of this country, I prostrated myself completely to the orders given out implicitly.

Today, I had a chance to talk with my Japanese journalist colleagues and I realized there are many ways of looking at what is going on in this country, and writing a short story about it would not give the slightest idea to my viewers. In fact if there's ten people, there would be ten different analyses and if I ask hundred analysts, there would be hundred analyses! The conclusion: anything could happen in this country now. Anything!

PS
We had dinner together at the same restaurant I went on Saturday...

but this time at the terrace! it was quite comfortable outside after 8PM!