November Musings: Mission Visayas, Batman: Arkham Origins, Thanksgiving, and the Holidays

It's been a while since I've posted anything on this personal blog, and November has been quite the busy month for me as it is. Besides celebrating a grand "Nameday" birthday, the Christmas season has arrived, and everyone's attention has been focused on the holidays and season's traditions that it's hard to believe that time is passing by us so fast.

In fact, much of the holiday spirit has been focused on helping the victims and survivors of Typhoon Yolanda, and I have been fortunate enough to have participated in not one, but two charity events this month, helping usher in funds and donations for the relief efforts alongside my fellow teammates and heroes from Justice PH.

One adventure chronicling said relief efforts hails directly from November 23rd's "Mission: Visayas" event, held at Bonifacio High Street. Coming off a day after my nameday, this was a spectacular way to help and work for a cause, being heroes and symbols for others as well.

Justice PH: Mission Visayas
Here's some photo and video highlights from the event, where JPH joined forces with 12 Radio Stations, 20 plus OPM artists and bands, and Mr. Pure Energy himself, Gary V.!

And on the gaming side, of course there was time to finally sit down and beat WB Games latest installment to the Batman: Arkham franchise - Batman: Arkham Origins. Suffice to say, it's a worthy and decent prequel to Rocksteady Studios' two stellar Batman games "Batman: Arkham Asylum" and "Batman: Arkham City", and new developer WB Games Montreal did an impressive job despite some quality issues and bugs found in the overall experience. I also have to hand it to the voice actors who played Batman and The Joker, namely Roger Craig Smith (Ezio Auditore from the Assassin's Creed series, Sonic The Hedgehog) and  Troy Baker (Joel from The Last of Us, Robin from Batman: Arkham City). This game may not be perfect, but it's still a damn good Batman game that must be played, and the boss battles alone make the experience worthwhile.

For more on that, do read my GMA News Online review on Batman: Arkham Origins.

And as November ends, here's some belated Thanksgiving greetings (like the Batman: Eternal teaser pic above from DC Comics), a happy bday wish to my late grandpa, Happy Bonifacio Day, and well wishes for the Holiday Season itself!