Background
He was born in Balamban, Cebu, where he grew up and had his early schooling.
He was born in Balamban, Cebu, where he grew up and had his early schooling.
He once studied for the priesthood in Galway, Ireland, but left the seminary to take up law. He attended Saint Francis Academy for his secondary education, and then went to Saint Clement"s College in Iloilo City, where he did a year of college.
After years of practicing law, he was appointed Regional Trial Court judge. In Ireland, he went to University College, Galway. Author/ Ypil, Lawrence L. (July 2003), "Representations of the Unconscious in Simeon Dumdum"s The Gift of Sleep", Kritika Kultura (3).
Love Makes the World Go Round, excerpted from Love Gathers All: A Philippine-Singaporean Anthology of Poetry.