Real agree double deal for Fletcher and O'Shea

Real Madrid have scored a major summer transfer coup by swooping for highly-rated English-based duo Darren Fletcher and John O'Shea.


Most of the best clubs in Europe, including Chelsea and Barcelona, have been linked with one of the pair at some stage over the past few months.
But a flying visit to England by Galactico's sporting director Pedrag Mijatovic has proved exceptionally fruitful.
Fees have been agreed with the players' club, Manchester United and personal terms have also been sorted out.
All that remains are the medicals before the formal conclusion of the transfers are announced.
No-one expected Real manager Capello to act so quickly in the market, with the overall fees for all two men likely to exceed the £25million mark, the first major cash splurge since ????? controversial buyout almost two years ago.
'Real Madrid Football Club is delighted to announce it has agreed terms in principle with Manchester United for the purchase of the registrations of Fletcher and O'shea,' said a club statement.
'Personal terms have been agreed and a formal announcement will take place once the necessary administrative procedures, including medicals, have been completed.'
Fletcher has been one of the most sought-after young talents in the game since he was given the captain's armband for Scotland's World Cup Qualifying Campaign.
The Scottish teenager, who has established himself as one of the best holding midfielders in the English Premier League, has been named by national coach Alex Mcleish in a preliminary squad for this summer's Euro Qualifying Campaign.
Real have been tailing O'shea for some time but appeared to have been thwarted in their attempts to sign him when it was suggested the 24-year-old was ready to extend his stay with Man Utd after clinching the EPL title.
However, the proposed contract remained unsigned, allowing Capello to step in and snap up the Irish international.
Capello will cross his fingers and hope his new arrivals enjoy the same kind of success as the last player he signed from England, fans favourite David Beckham.
Their arrivals should certainly help the fans feel at ease, particularly if the midfielder's friend David Beckham is sold this summer as expected.
It is certainly an astute piece of business by Capello, who realises two of his main defensive rocks, Cannavaro and Emerson - while outstanding this season - are reaching the end of their careers.
With the likelihood of another big-name striker being signed, Real have signalled a statement of intent for the new campaign.
All the new arrivals will make their bows on the club's pre-season Far East tour.

diu lei lo mo

My little grouper and the Hong Kong skyline at the avenue of stars
Our hostel looks very inhabitable from the outside, there were many prostitutes lingering downstairs
Us in the room again, it was actually a converted communal toilet
Getting used to the life in HK already
Toys 'r' Us Hong KONG

Catch Reports! Sai Kung..!

Finaly after so much disappointment over fishing in HK, we got on a boat to fish offshore in SAIKUNG, yet another fishing village, this was much more promising.
Of our many decent table size catches, i landed this interesting little fella, the Octopus haha. It was squirting black ink all over as i hauled it up, by the time we took the picture, it had turned black itself..

This was everything we caught for the 3 hours.. if not for getting a little seasick, i think we could have opened our own seapoot restaurant. Above is me sorting out the catches for the uncle on his boat, he actually sells them from the boat, this is the customer's view.. :)

FISHING~! Lamma Island

Lamma Island was supposed 2 be a fishing paradise rock fishing, surf fishing, offshore, whatever. We lugged our metador surecatch rod holder, all 6.6ft of it acrooss hong kongs islands, hiked for about 10KM?!?!?! all over the hills in search of a good spot, when there was none, even if there were it was extremely inaccessible... ok another disappointing day, but good exercise though HAHA
Finally at ONE of the peaks of Lamma Island.
Wanted to get this dried puffer, but figured i would have check in probs after that, soo this will do :)
At the ferry terminal with the rod holder.
I find this very funny as this chair was facing the great ocean view at the peak, but there was so much plant growth it blocked everything out, tourists observing the scenic view would have looked like this.. hehe

Not that good a DAY

This was shenzhen and the the only picture we haave of it because it sucked so badly we din even bother to stay for long.. The Chinamen are soo rude, besides pushing, they spit on the floor, throw their rubbish happily all over the malls, dig their noses, fart, cheat, lie, are impatient and are constantly frowning. Not the believed shopping HAVEN
MY LITTLE AUDREY THE GROUPER! SOO CHUTE, POWER NAPPING ON THE WAY TO LAMMA ISLAND..!
And... this was our hostel for 3 nights, $18 SGD a night, with national geographic and soft core porn channels toilet and airconditioning we couldnt have asked for more.. COSMIC HOTEL - Korean based..

HII, this is Audrey invading Abel's photo blog cos he's in the shower at the moment.
So anyway, this is the start of the long and arduous journey to the north. China trains and mainlanders put together seriously, champion

This is the ONLY photo we took in Shenzhen plainly cos there was nothing else to take. We hate that place just in case you didn't already know. Also cos the menu was all in Chinese, and we took like 10minutes to decipher one dish, with an impatient CHINA WOMAN waiting over our shoulders.

We couldn't take China any longer so we left and I brought them to God's gift to shopaholics, the beautiful Mongkok. This is the goldfish market where the entire street was just shops and shops of ... fishes.

The guys were so impressed by the streets of Mongkok they went trigger happy. And to recover from their shopping drought in Shenzhen, went crazy in shopping there too.

Okay, my darling's back. Over and out.

The highest point in Hong Kong..

I still cannot believe that im still on the same day, this makes blogging very tiring.. But our days are just sooo eventful, I truly unestimated Hong Kong and Oceans park man.On the cable car to the lowlands, the kiddy land! after conquering the highlands. I think im a pussy man cunt head, even on this cable car, i was trembling n i never let go of the handles. The cable car was VerRy high up!! and it dint help that a cable car plummeted 500m in Lantau Island just 2 days earlier.
My scores were 76 and 84. Audrey beat me for the first hit, but i blame my hammer which was heavier. The scores were over 160 :) hehe yaya whatever!

The grey mist is actually the clouds, within touching distance. In the clouds actually, it was so surreal.. It got really cold after a while and the skyline was blocked out :( I cant imagine that there are still condos around this area..
Finally the clouds dissipated..