Cebuano Judge Simeon Dumdum wins poetry award for book on birds

Cebuano Judge Simeon Dumdum wins poetry award for book on birds 

A PROMINENT Cebuano literature icon’s book on birds earned him another award to add to his collection over the weekend.

Judge Simeon Dumdum of the Regional Trial Court branch 7 in Cebu City was awarded the Best Book in the poetry category of the 30th National Book Awards held at the National Museum in Manila last Saturday(November 12, 2011).

The awards committee was composed of members of the National Book Development Board and the Manila Critics Circle.

Dumdum is a five-time winner of the Don Carlos Palanca Awards for Literature since the 80s.

Born in Balamban town in midwest Cebu, Dumdum studied for the priesthood in Galway, Ireland, but left the seminary to take up law.

After years in law practice, he was appointed judge of the Regional Trial Court.

His poetry, which Dumdum has published and read overseas, has earned him several awards.

Dumdum has published seven books to date: The Gift of Sleep (poems), Third World Opera (poems), Love in the Time of the Camera (essays), Selected Poems and New (poems), My Pledge of Love Cannot be Broken (essays), Ah Wilderness: A Journey Through Sacred Time and If I Write You This Poem, Will You Make It Fly? (poems).

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Cebu is virtual champ in Batang Pinoy games

Cebu City dominated almost all the sports disciplines played after day three of the Batang Pinoy 2011 Visayas qualifying leg in Dumaguete City.

Except for archery, which was ruled by host Dumaguete City, Cebu City won the gold medals at stake in badminton, table tennis, judo, taekwondo, chess and swimming to emerge as the virtual overall champion with a day left in the event played by athletes 15 years old and below.

Excluding the second day results for swimming, lawn tennis and boxing, Cebu City has already collected 42 golds, 24 silvers and 23 bronzes in the multi-sporting event.

At second place is Bacolod City with 26 golds, 20 silvers and 19 bronzes while running third is Leyte with 18 golds, 12 silvers and 10 bronzes.

Cebu swept the gold medals at stake in badminton with Fritz Gerald Sagaad ruling the boys’ singles and Hannah Tudtud topping the girls’ singles. Sagaad later paired with Dexter Oballa to take home the boys’ doubles gold while Tudtud teamed up with Jhunah Francisco to bag the gold in the girls’ doubles.

Also claiming the golds for Cebu were Jeffrey Lauron (42 kg) and Christopher Odevere (55 kg) in judo while Dannel Jay Tormis ruled the boys’ singles and the mixed doubles gold medal with Diana Oliverio in table tennis. The gold in the girls’ singles, however, went to Emy Rose Dael of Bacolod city.

The gold medal in chess went to Jazelle Villarin in the girls category with her score of 4.5 points while Jethro Esplanada of Leyte topped the boys division with his 5.0 points.

Cebu City also collected a total of 10 golds in the boys at girls divisions in taekwondo with Ma. Carmela Coran (flyweight), Aila Marie Lepon (lightweight), Micah Marie Mission (featherweight), Marie Hanz Therese Espina (welterweight) and Zosen Prajes (middleweight),James Louie Callino (finweight), Eric Garces Jr. (flyweight), Kyle John Flores (bantamweight), Jefferson Louie Callino (lightweight) and Keith Brian Fernandez (featherweight) taking home the mints. /pr

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Cebu Chamber Singers - Grand Prix Champion at the Busan International Choral Festival(November 2011)

Cebu Chamber Singers - Grand Prix Champion at the Busan International Choral Festival(November 2011)

Cebu Chamber singers beat 900 rivals in choral fest - THE hard work, the great effort, the sweat and tears as well as the gargantuan task of the extensive nightly training paid off after the Cebu Chamber Singers (CCS) won the top prize in this year’s Busan International Choral Festival in Korea.

Aside from the Philippines, represented by Cebu Chamber Singers, the other participating countries were the Russian Federation, Lithuania, China, Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, Iran, Korea, Japan and the Czech Republic.

This latest victory of the CCS is another manifestation of how talented the Cebuanos are in the arena of choral singing. Mind you, most of them are professionals and some are students and they had to sacrifice in order to bring the name of Cebu to this international choral competition and eventually bring home the bacon. CCS got the Grand Prix, the highest award given by the Korea Choral Institute, the festival organizer.

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