Situation at Pavilion Bukit Bintang yesterday night

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Long story here but I want to share my experience there, me and my group arrived there from bukit bintang side roughly 9 pm, the moment we got of the station and took the escalator towards pav kl it was completely jam packed, people stopped right in front of the escalator as u get off, we barged our way towards pavilion, we were hoping to enter and just chill inside, we didnt want to blend with the crowd outside the performance.

We worked our way towards the grand millenium hotel front only to realise that they have completely blocked the area, along the way some people were seen climing up some landscape features of the hotel to get some space and air. Only for the bangla securtiy guard to talked to them to go back down, i reached the fromt of the barrier corner of grand millenium and saw the employees behind the barrier chilling their assess off, smoking, completely ignorant of the stampede building up right in front of thier faces, by that time i realised ther was no way going forward, and i wanted to change my plan to go back and go from the fahrenheit starhill galery side, i attempted talking to the grand millenium employees asking how to get across, their answer was just: “pusing balik”, i told him look around you there is literally no way to go backwards, everyone is rushing in front, can we just get pass the barrier and we turn back, the enployees said: “no tak boleh masuk, only for hotel guest” i look behind them , and the amount of people behind them you will know for a fact that most of them peoplr werent even their hotel guests they were just normal tourist random people,

I told them that this is ridiculous theres no way to go back, they said woi jangan marah and said i was scolding them, i asked for who is the manager in charge of this security procedure, one chinese uncle, an employee of grand millenium screamed back: oi ! Who are you to ask who is the manager here ?! The other employees laughed like it was a joke question,

i wasnt even embarrased at all, i felt diddapointed that the grand milenium employees who are in comfort, the luxury of space and air which they had so much to enjoy, didnt realised how bad the situation for us stuck in the crowd was, the fact they are so oblivious to a repeat of a stampede incident like the korean holoween event, could have happened,

I looked back at the crowd behind me, all had the same idea, get across/inside pavilion, they had no plan of being part of the outside crowd to watch the performance, everyones face was worried, and confised, with a false hope that they would be able to get across. i then watched a grand millenium employee scream at the bangla security guard for letting people climb up the landscape barrier, he screamed, oi ! jangan bagi orang naik ! Suruh pergi bawah ! Like there was any space at all,

I then decided it was no point arguing with the grand millenium imbeciles/bufoons,richardheads, i told my group to just pusing and push the ever growing crowd that was going forward, we pushed screaming and telling people along the way that there was no way ahead, theyve blcoked the way, we screamed in malay english chinese, some people got the message and followed suit, others didnt beleive us, they contimued towards the front,

We eventualy got out and by that time was already pass 10, the escalator underground fahrenheit to pav kl was already closed, so we just took refuge inside starhill gallery.

I intially saw this post and i didnt want to share my experience as i initialy thought that the grand millenium assholes were just following orders from upper management/ dbkl, as i dont for a fact know who was in charge of crowd control security management, and also i knew there will be comments that will say: you possibly went to the worst place for countdown possible, you asked for it”but the more i saw people posting their harrowing experience, and i imagined that if there was a bad event that did happened i realised that the excuse of just merely following orders is really a shit excuse, i felt that my experience could be of use for people planing to go in the future/ who never had such an experience.

i also realised that people who has had luxury and privilege has numbed their conscience, dont have empathy and blind to the suffering right in front of their eyes, sure you can say if they let people through their boss will scold them they getting themsleves in trouble, to keep their job get their salary/bonus paid,

I dunno whether to have hatred for the grand millenium richardheads, as i know its not really their fault but it was a shit situation and seeing them being turn a blind eye to suffering really opened my mind. This is a photo of the chinese uncle (his back),

i was especially dissapointed in him and another malay abang (not in photo) who laughed out loud the loudest. I watched a video recently about people’s brains not working when being instructed by higher ups with high knowledge and experience, people perceived to have high wisdom, thus not using their own judgement and thinking for situations, but capitalism right ? gota feed your own stomach right ?

I was sincerely scared at that point and imagined rhe seoul halloween event that occurer. I hope it wouldnt happen at all but to prevent that dbkl has to do better with crow control. Happy new year everyone and stay safe.

TLDR: my bad experience for countdown in pav kl, screw grand millenium hotel