ever since the last show at Suntec in aug 2008, i told myself never to go to Suntec Convention Centre for such a show. To walk along citylink and inhaling stinky breath, rubbing along side with sweaty people at a speed no faster than 1 meter per minute, being pushed around by some idiots who had no manners, i would hope to boycott Suntec convention hall.
The citylink is a disaster. The security at citylink only dared to stand at the two ends, smiling and giggling at the crowd, allowing people from each direction to push inwards. It can become so bad that some shops had to pull down shutters to prevent a stealing rampage or stampede.
Those idiots who manage citylink has totally zero understanding of what crowd control is.
There should be some form of human traffic control and even if they dont have the technologies or the budget to hire a student to count, they should have some cow sense to know what they are seeing at the CCTV. Indeed they have no clue this has happened again and again every time there is an IT show.
To all organisors, mall management, citylink management (whatever you are called), please understand the importance of crowd control. If an area is unable to accomodate a certain number of people, it is against the fire safety regulations to ignore the dangers of a possible human stampede. Its not funny as the people who might die from such a chaos may be their very own child or mother.