Trapped in Sunway Pyramid Elevator...

(Blog Update For 28th October 2007)
-[For those who are searching for pictures to view, please scroll down...pictures trapped in elevator are located after this looong blog entry]-

Went for lunch at Subway in Sunway Pyramid 2 with Ashleighhhh, Ken Seong, Jay & Kevin... Subway's sandwiches are always best!!! There's no doubt about it! William came at the end and oh ya Thomas Yap was there too.

Anyways, we went around this awesome shopping mall and found some new shops / food outlets that can't be found elsewhere. Will feature those next time around but this update i'd like to talk more about us being trapped in the elevator at Sunway Pyramid when we were on our way back.

5.06PM Imagine being trapped in a square box, imagine being confined in there for hours, imagine being alone... well some people can barely survive this if they are claustrophobic. I was with Kevin and William in an elevator that was suppose to go up to level CP2 (this is where my car was parked)... suddenly upon arrival at the level, the door tried to open and it couldn't open and immediately got jammed up! We tried to open it from the inside by pressing on the open button but to no avail...

5.08PM We panicked a little bit as to why the elevator door didn't wanna open... well we pressed on the bell button to call for help and the operator asked us what happened. I explained to her clearly what had happened, where we are, our location and level. She said hold on and she'll send someone over to open the door.

5.23PM Fine, we waited patiently and 10 - 15 minutes has passed by. We felt very uneasy as there was nobody on the other side of the elevator trying to open the door and nobody from Sunway Pyramid security control room tried to reach for us. We called upon the operator again by pressing the bell button and she asked "are you still inside?"... OMG!!!

If we are still inside, we wouldn't be talking to her would we? haha... well she still kept on asking where we were and which elevator we were in... I told her that we were on Level CP2, the elevator door couldn't open and that we've been waiting in here for at least 15 minutes. She once again said that she will send someone over.

5.33PM 10 minutes later, i buzzed the security control room again and nobody replied... i looked at the back of my car park ticket and there's no number for Sunway Pyramid on it. I looked at the elevator walls and control panel there's no number to call in-case of emergency. OMG...what kind of shopping mall management is this???

5.44PM 10 minutes later...I didn't know what else to do...so i called my dad and he said he'll call the Emergency Response Team (ERT). So i gave the details of my whereabouts to him and his office made the call to the ERT moments later someone from the Fire Department called me and requested for a more specific location and the guy on the phone said that as we speak, there's already a team on their way to our location.

5.54PM Minutes later the Fire Engine arrived with a crew of 8 at the Sunway Pyramid 2 new wing entrance searching for us at that side of the mall. They couldn't find us as we were actually in the elevator in the old wing. It was my fault...should've told them that we were in the old wing as they were searching for us at the elevator area near the Starbucks Coffee at the new wing. Good thing that one of the firemen called me to find my exact location.

At this time, i believe the Security officers from Sunway Pyramid took a look at our situation as the Fire Engine was here and they didn't know who called them. The thing is, for them if the Fire Department is there on site, they would be in big trouble... because the fire guys only come in when there's big trouble! And this is BIG TROUBLE!

The Firemen came to our rescue, found out where we were - they were together with the rest of the Sunway Pyramid security officers (there were like 4 uniformed security guards, and 2 undercover bodyguards and 2 senior security executives / managers on site).

By this time, it was really hard to breath...as the amount of oxygen circulating inside the elevator was turning more into carbon dioxide than oxygen. The percentage of fresh air was really dropping like mad, most of us were perspiring at this time...

During this whole hour... we tried to entertain ourselves and keep us awake and to be rescued by talking, singing (songs like Negaraku, Tanggal 31)... and many more. We even did some stupid things like taking photos in the elevator, tried to shoot one another using our mobile phones, and looked at some videos on our phones.

I have to say that this was an experience and it really brought us around together more, we got to know one another more by getting the chance to talk about our lives and even our past and present.

6.14PM The Security officers and Firemen tried to open the elevator door from the outside, they were in contact with us via mobile phone and I alerted them using the bell situated inside the elevator. With the strength of 3 of us from the inside and many more of them from the outside, we managed to open the elevator door open together...

FINALLY We are SAFE!!! SAVED by the Firemen on site, Malaysia's #1 Emergency Response Team. Their response time for this event was really fast and efficient. Thank you to the Fire Department for saving our lives on this day, not forgetting the Security team from Sunway Pyramid.

I have to say one last thing... Sunway Pyramid should improve in their security and maintenance. They should at least place an emergency number / direct number to contact their Security Control Room from the elevator (although there's already the intercom and bell inside the elevator), an elevator number should be placed inside as well as the operator kept on asking me what elevator i am in but i couldn't tell her as there was no number on the inside. They should be able to tell from which elevator the emergency bell button was triggered from. What happened? Seriously... if the Firemen didn't come, i believe that we would've been out there trapped longer...


Wanna eat fresh sandwiches and eat right? Come on over to Subway!!!

Kevin and Jay both wearing all black... mwahha!!! Anyways, the food was awesome!

Ken was here too! He made it all the way here to meet up with me again! thx bro :-)

Looks like someone is searching for some pocket money...

The new shopping mall has an anchor tenant which is Jusco! Awesome... we have Jusco and Parkson under the same roof?

The information screen is actually a plasma screen TV! So sometimes it would be showing the directory, sometimes video presentations.

Ahh.. did i tell you that both these guys participated in a charity contest...on stage! Mwahah..

Ok i don't have a wide angle lens or what... so this was what i could get from here! Was too lazy anyways...

OMG... we're STUCKED!!! Trapped in the elevator...

We were so bored, waiting for the Sunway Pyramid people to come... so we sat on the floor tried to calm ourselves down!

We still could find the time to take pictures together... the door tried to open on its own but couldn't!

We did some stupid things like taking this small little padlock and locking William's shoes together! Mwhaha... we even sang Negaraku and Tanggal 31!

And we eventually gone crazy... like this one where i imagined that my phone is a gun and tried to ask William to put his hands up and about to arrest him!

And in the end after waiting for an hour... we were dead bored!

posted by Shaz @ 10/31/2007 04:33:00 AM