No Kissing

26 Oct 2010 - Amourous couples at theMandarin Gallery on Orchard Road in Singapore have to find a new make-out spot after the mall put up no-kissing signs in its plush rest areas. The kissing crackdown, together with bans on sleeping and eating, started in July. Three individual signs, framed as one, show a fork and spoon, a cartoon man lying down snoozing and a kissing cartoon couple holding hands, with a heart between them - all with a bold red line drawn through. It was put up after a handful of complaints to the mall management about bad behaviour by inconsiderate shoppers ranging from people hogging couches to young canoodlers. Tenants whose shopfronts face the lounge areas say the signs - especially the kissing one - are much needed, even if they may raise a fewe eyebrows. I guess that point the Mandarin  Gallery tries to make is that one is welcome for shopping only.