On 11 March 2022, Friday evening, Singapore Press Club members are invited to enjoy a guided tour of Hell’s Museum in Haw Par Villa, walk and explore the Park, have dinner and participate in the Final Reckoning book launch at the upcoming Rise of Asia at Haw Par Villa. Join a panel discussion with Romen Bose, author of Final Reckoning, an insider’s view of the fall of Malaysia’s Barisan Nasional Government and get his autograph.

11 March 2022, Friday
4pm to 8pm SGT

Member price: $20 per ticket (same rate for spouse)

Non-member (accompanying friend of member): $28 per ticket.

Usual Museum entry fee only is $18 per ticket (excluding guided tour and meal)
 

Programme

4pm to 4.45pm

A guided tour of Hell’s Museum, the World’s first museum on death and the afterlife, recognised as Singapore’s No. 2 Museum on TripAdvisor. 

4.45pm to 6.30pm

Wander and explore Hell’s Museum, Haw Par Villa Park and Dinner

6.30pm to 8pm

The Final Reckoning book launch at the upcoming Rise of Asia Museum at Haw Par Villa.

Singapore Press Club members get to enjoy a special promotion package of this programme (limited to 20 pax only) that includes: 

• Admission to Hell’s Museum UP$18 for admission (https://www.hawparvilla.sg/hells-museum/?date=2022-03-01&time=1540)
• 45 min Guided Tour of Hell’s Museum
• Meal at the Sixth Milestone Cafe (https://www.hawparvilla.sg/the-sixth-milestone/)
• The Final Reckoning book launch and talk and chance to meet the author Romen Bose 

Sixth Milestone Cafe dinner menu offered for this promotion – 1 main and 1 drink (see options below). Pls note that any alcoholic drinks ordered would have to be at an additional charge paid directly to the cafe. 

• Mains: Choice of either Curry Chicken, Mac and Cheese, Gram Dahl, Seafood Hor Fun or Mutton Rendang
• Drinks: Choice of Polar mineral water, Green Tea, Ice Lemon Tea, Sprite, Coke, Three Legs Water (Lychee or Lime), Grass Jelly, Sportade (Blueberry, Strawberry or Grape), Cocomax Coconut Water, Snapple

The Hell’s Museum was launched on 28 Oct 2021, and in just a short three months has been recognised as Singapore’s No. 2 Museum on TripAdvisor. The museum is the World’s first museum on death and the afterlife. It gives visitors a better understanding of the commonalities across the world’s major belief systems – and how different communities around the world, as well as in Singapore, draw meaning from death and dying.

We can only take up to 20 participants in a group, due to the current regulations for museums. The visit will include a guided tour of the museum, to share the highlights of the museum for an enhanced experience. The guided tour will take about 45 mins, and you can wander through the museum after and also explore the Haw Par Villa park and have your dinner at the Sixth  Milestone Cafe (extended hours exclusively for SPC members) then proceed to the book launch that will begin at 6.30pm to be held at the Rise of Asia Museum. 

At the book launch, you will get to meet the author Romen Bose and enjoy a panel discussion with him followed by book sale and autograph session.

ABOUT THE BOOK
From the innermost sanctum of the Prime Minister’s private offices among the Minaret-studded buildings of Putrajaya to streets filled with tear-gassed protestors in downtown Kuala Lumpur, Romen Bose, a former international correspondent and political communications consultant to then Prime Minister Najib Razak, provides a gripping and engaging true story of drama, intrigue, violence and incompetence that finally ended the rule of Malaysia’s sixty-one year old Barisan Nasional Government in May 2018.

With a front-row seat to the major controversies that hit the Najib Razak administration, Romen reveals for the first-time how the country’s leadership reacted to the disappearance of MH370 and the still classified covert moves to retrieve the remains of Malaysian victims following the shooting down of MH17. Final Reckoning also gives a blow-by-blow account of how the 1MDB scandal rocked the Government and the attempts by the country’s top politicians and their advisers to contain and explain it away. Through numerous conversations with key players and his presence at various top secret meetings amid the global investigations into the scandal, Final Reckoning pieces together how a sitting Prime Minister became, Najib claims, ‘the fall guy’ for a mastermind who had managed to pull off the single biggest con of the century.

Also revealed for the first-time:

•  The final hours and minutes of the Barisan Nasional Government as its leaders attempted to keep its rule alive following its devastating loss at the polls
• How the ruling United Malays National Organisation (UMNO) may have conspired and mortally wounded itself ahead of the General Elections
• A spy in the Prime Minister’s Office
• An almost successful plot allegedly planned by some of the country’s top civil servants to arrest and depose a sitting Prime Minister; and
• The real story behind the mystery of Flight MH370, which disappeared on 8 March 2014 with 227 passengers and 12 crew onboard.

In doing so, Final Reckoning tells the story of an ultimately futile scramble to try and preserve a crumbling political legacy that had long been out of step with the realities of a new Malaysia. This book is the story of the wild roller-coaster ride that marked the Barisan Nasional Government’s rule, from the 2013 General Elections, until its 61-year old hold on power came to an end on the night of 9 May 2018.

Click here to register for this special event held at Haw Par Villa.