Friday, September 24, 2010

What Happened In Corregidor Will Stay In Corregidor

...because I forgot to bring batteries for my camera.

As part of our Hi166 class requirements, we had to take a trip to Corregidor island because our professor believed it to be a good way for us to learn about how World War II was like here in our country. That didn't really turn out well.

Now, since I don't have my own car and the meet-up place was located somewhere in the vicinity of the CCP complex, I asked my friend who was taking the same class if he could pick me up somewhere along Katipunan. The night before the trip, he sent me a message about his dad not wanting to get caught in the traffic jam the ACET would cause that morning; he'd pick me up in Ayala-UP TechnoHub instead. I knew then that I had to wake up earlier than I initially intended to since I now had to call for a cab instead of a trike. I slept for only three hours for reasons I can no longer remember. And here's where things started to go downhill. As soon as I woke up, I remembered I had not charged my camera's batteries. As we would be in Corregidor for most of the day, I would definitely need both of them fully charged. So, before I left to take a shower, I plugged the charger in and began the process. After the shower and changing, I stuffed my camera into the bag I decided I needed and walked out of the room - without the batteries that were still being charged. I only realized later as I was waiting in the KFC at TechnoHub that I had forgotten to bring them with me. (The lighting was nice since it was early morning and I wanted to get a great shot in before the trip started.) I would have gone back for them but I didn't want to be late because, like time apparently, the ferry waits for no one.

So the whole day, I lugged along with me a bag that only served the purpose of carrying my camera, which was, at this point, of as much use to the trip as a paperweight was. It was a good thing Allen let me borrow his camera for me to take a few shots - none of which turned out to be worth editing.

How was the trip? I won't even bother writing about it here. It was uninteresting for the most part, which is definitely not what you would expect from an out-of-town trip.