Warning: NOT for overly sensitive people.

One of the greatest pleasures of photography is to chance upon subjects that are naturally interesting.

Take the sign at the back of this truck, for instance.

The sign says “katas ng kurikung”. Obviously, “kurikung” is a misspelling of “kurikong” which is defined by the Urban Dictionary as “a very rough part of your skin that is too scary to touch.” And that’s a conservative definition. “Kurikong” can refer to anything from rough skin to a skin breakout that never seems to heal and is in a constant state of redness and irritation. You see it on someone and you shiver and go, “Eeewww!” because at the back of your mind, you wonder if the bacteria won’t jump on to your skin, get embedded and infect you.

Now, why a truck would carry a sign like that is mind-boggling. Weird sense of humor, perhaps? But it went beyond humor when we realized what the truck was carrying.

Onions. It was a delivery truck and the cargo was onions.

Of course, the sign and the cargo are unrelated but, you know… Personally, I can’t seem to shake off the association.

But, anyway, let’s move on from weird (or gross, if you want to put it that way) humor to weird nature. We were visiting the new house to measure the windows and the space allotted for the fridge and, on the road just before the subdivision gate, there was this dog sniffing around the sidewalk. Speedy slowed down and shouted, “Hyena! Hyena dog!” And I shouted back, “Stop the car and take a photo!”

So, there’s the hyena dog. It may also be a Pinoy dalmatian. You know, brown instead of white coat, and black spots.

Some days are really more strange than others.