Lost My Vacation Photos

I was not happy last month because I lost a lot of pictures from my vacation in the Philippines. My Memory Stick pro Dou which I used for my compact Sony camera was corrupted which is one of the reasons why all the pictures were lost. Another thing that happened was when I was downloading my pictures from my SD cards to my sister's computer but I was not able to see most of the pictures. There are only around 10 pictures I saw in the picture folder after downloading. That was really unbelievable and I was not happy about it. I am thankful that my sister also had a camera where the pictures were downloaded successfully. I also don't know the exact reason why I was not able to download the pictures and why was my MS Pro Dou was corrupted. In fact, when I also tried to view and download it in my computer here in Germany, I could still not find it. Does my 8Gb MS Pro Dou was totally damaged? You better be careful when downloading vacation pictures. You don't stay in that vacation place all the time. I would suggest having another camera, extra batteries or extra memory cards for any emergencies especially if you really wish to have more vacation photos as souvenirs.