You can catch me on-air  on KOFY TV Channel 20 Cable 13.

Jan 18 Monday -  Jan 22 Friday.  1pm-5pm

Jan 25 Monday 1-5pm

Jan 26 Tuesday 8am-11am

Jan 27 Thursday – Jan 28 Friday  1-5pm

Let them know how you feel about me! Compliments, complaints or rotten tomatos, I’ll take anything!

After the disappointment from my prior blog post, I began to peruse the net for any more images of me as “Lu the Prodigy” from Jade Empire, you know, to boost my battered self-esteem….and clutch my pearls, look what I stumbled across! (go to 2:30 if you wanna skip the foreplay)

I am somewhat ashamed to admit but despite having a video game character made from my face & image, I have never ever played Jade Empire. (Bioware even gave me a free copy which is collecting dust on a shelf) I have nothing against video games, but frankly the last video game I played was probably Super Mario Bros circa 1990, 2000. If someone had informed me I could get manhandled on screen like this, I would have become a ga(y)mer years ago! PS: what else can he do to me?

UPDATE 1: I guess this really isn’t that rare in the gamer world. An old high school friend sent me this NY Times article. Merci Albert!

UPDATE 2: The above clip is LuLu the Prodigy & here is the straight version of Lu the Prodigy.

One of my modeling career highlights was when video game company BioWare created  a video game character after my likeness &  image (Lu from Jade Empire).

 To be eternally immortalized and played by every fanboy around the world was quite flattering. BioWare flew in a photographer from Canada to shoot me for their designers at the Private Apartment at the Clift Hotel in San Francisco. Sporting not much more than a speedo, I was put on a rotating pedastal & photographed from every possible angle.  The final rendition  was indeed quite  life-like & I was pleased. (Actually more like relieved that they didn’t make me into Chun Li from Street Fighter!)

So, when Bioware approached me for another game character for their new game Mass Effect 2, how could I say no?  This time they flew me out to Los Angeles for the shoot. That was a while ago, so I haven’t really thought much of it…until recently when I saw street ads plastered around.

   Apparently, Mass Effects 2 is about to hit the market so w/ much anticipation I log onto the Mass Effect 2 site to see me.  Well, either I ended up on the editing floor or,  by process of elimination, the only character that could even be related/inspired by me is this reptilian bald Thane.  Maybe he has my lips, cheekbones, jawline?  Oh, who am I kidding! They dumped me! On the bright side, at least I know what would happen if I mated with a Martian….

Great news! It turns out I was a hit with the viewers over the holidays & KOFY TV has informed me I will be hosting for the next several weeks! I will be on-air five times week.  A big wet “MUAH” for everyone’s support! I really appreciate it!

Here are some pix of me on the set, reviewing the scripts, inserting my one line zingers. Wasn’t it Bill Cosby who said “Always rehearse your improvisations”?

Remember my prior post about Stand Up 2 Cancer? There are a series of PSA’s directed by Jesse Dylan featuring Renee Zellweger, Monica, Rob Lowe, Billy Bob Thornton, Michael Strahan, Minka Kelly, Mandy Moore, Robin Tunney and more. I’m in the last group shot in all the clips (just marginally, bottom right corner….ok, ok it’s the back of my head), but the one where you can actually see my face is at the start of the above clip with Sofia Vassilieva (of TV show Medium fame).

Here’s a little clip of me hosting on TV that my dear sis sent me. Forgive the dreadful quality (it was taken from her iphone!). I suppose I could have waited for the producers to send me the hi-res versions but being the queen of self-promotion, I just had to strike while the iron’s hot & post here for y’all!

This reminds me of when my sister and I were kids in suburbia & we were just starting to take an interest in music. Problem is we didn’t have money to buy albums, we had no cable TV, we weren’t old enough to get to the mall…our only chance to catch the newest Madonna song was to sit by the radio all night with our thumb poised over the record button on our Casio cassette recorder , should our song hit the airwaves! The quality was wretched and garbled, but it didn’t matter one bit to us. We were just thrilled to ‘own’ our copy! I stopped this practice after a girl in my 6th grade told me it was illegal and that she would tell on me.

Don’t fret if you missed me on TV today, I’m hosting a couple more times this week on KOFY TV 20 Cable 13.   Wednesday December 30, 2009 5pm-9pm is my next slot.  Set the timers on your VCR’s & watch me make a darn fool of myself!

In the meanwhile, here is a screen capture to whet your appetite.   Thank you all for watching me!

Herman, Hosting on KOFY TV

This commercial I shot for Owl International earlier this year is finally on heavy rotation on USA Chinese Channels! I portray a diligent little worker bee. I love the close up hand shots; they look amazing, if I do say so myself. Enjoy!

This the audition video “Be a Host” for KOFY TV . As as a finalist, my segments air sporadically this week thru new years eve! I am competing with 2 other finalists to be the January Host for KOFY TV. Please vote for me here! I need your help, pretty please. (you need to sign up online to vote but just use a fake name and email)

My air-time is as follows (pacific standard time):
Tuesday 12/22 @ 8a-12a
Monday 12/28 @ 1p-5p
Wednesday 12/30 @ 5p-9p
Friday 12/31 @ 1p-5p