I'm wondering have the stake holder of our government neglected our commitment to the world in cutting-down green-house gases produce within our nation as the PM mentioned something like night-long lighting up the city sky-line to live-up the name of "Singapore - A city that never sleep".

By keeping the lights on along downtown areas per night for 365 days a year, i wonder how much more fuel need to be burnt in order to sustain the energy required. Fuel burnt will inevitably releases carbon dioxide in the process thus will affect the eco-system in a worldwide effect of global warming and changing the way mother-nature used to work. How much more such reserves does mother earth has to offer or provide and how much longer could she sustain our wastage in using the reserves for instead a better cause, i really wonder.

It may seems that i'm overly concerns about things that i may likely not experience of running nil of coal or other fuel for energy in my life-time but isn't it what the government is always preaching as in the water conservation campaign, "Do waste water like there's no tomorrow"?? Is there any measure the government would take to dampen the cost of such vision to live up to the world in promoting Singapore as a city that never sleep?

While the standard of living in Singapore is ever growing and prices of almost everythings shooting sky-high, i'm wondering if the government or the Health Minister in particular, could study into the feasibility of using our hard earned CPF medisave monies for yet another health-related withdrawal to perfecting our vision.

As ageing sets on and the growing number of people needing to wear glasses in order to see clearer, i wishfully hope that Ministry of Health will allow the use of CPF members' balance from the medisave to be used for eye-sight correction.

Being a middle-income group myself and having to change a pair of new glasses once every 1 - 2 years as it deterioates, it is already taxing in my situation popping out the money, not to mention the lower income group whom may be sustaining a family expenses of only $500 per month. A decent pair of glasses with realiable quality (neither branded nor trendy) would easily amount between $120 - $150 unless you don't mind it with thicker lens, and don't forget the troublesome of not able to do everything with it worn. I think everyone, regardless if you're wearing glasses or contact-lens, would agree to undergo an eye surgery to perfect the eye-sight and do away with ever needing to wear glasses if the cost for such procedure is affordable, in a sense that the entire cost be less than $1000 for both eyes.

I urge the Ministry to consider including the eye-correction or commonly known as "Lasik" for perfecting ones eye-sight be granted as one of the health related initiative at improving the CPF members vision. As i don't think the price for the procedure will be going any lower than the current lowest around $2800, I think we earned that money and is logically right to spend them for our own needs to see better and live better. The current market rate may seems little to many but it meant alot to people like me who has CPF saving but not in terms of spare cash on-hand, hope the relevant Ministry could follow-up on the matter please.

I seriously doubt the LTA decision to erect ERP gantries at different locations of Singapore roads will ease the traffic congestions. If the ultimate objective of the government is to relief congesting in specific roads where traffic is usually heavy at certain time of the day, the authority should be looking into what causes the jam and not simply by imposing tariffs.

Not that there are too many vehicles on the road to the extend that the road could not handle (else the government would have long seized the issue of new COE), it is the design of the road that hampered the effect of smooth traffic flow. Take for example the CTE from Ang Mo Kio to city, the morning rush hours jam is caused by different traffic entering and exiting the expressway. It usually occurs at exit to PIE heading towards Changi and Taus (as people rush to work), tailing back many at times to even YCK road. The choking point here is the entrance from Braddel joining the expressway obstructing those filtering who need to exit to PIE from the CTE flow thus resulting in slowing of vehicle speed in view of safety.

As for the jams from city along CTE towards AMK in the evening till the night, the merging lanes of PIE to CTE and the exit to Braddel is also too close to one another. Likewise it is so for CTE Braddel entrance and AMK Ave-1 exit, AMK Ave-1 entrance and AMK Ave-3 exit as well as AMK Ave-3 exit and AMK Ave-5 exit which is the closest.

I urge the authority to look into the real problems rather than to simply impose tariffs as a form of punishment for those who utilise the public road since we paid for such usage annually.

If by charging more will prevent congestion, then shouldn't LTA be looking at building gantries at all exit points of every carparks and side-roads so that only those who frequents the road more will pay more and those who didn't use at all pay nothing and do away with the annual road tax owners have to pay for maintaining or sustaining the public road condition.

Over the last few months when travelling abroad, i was saddened by the scene at the Singapore Customs Checkpoints where queues of passport holders jamming-up the express self-clearance lane using their biometric passport.

While with the new self-service lanes is definitely a good initiative, especially at reducing the number of physical manpower needed to mann the checkpoint clearance booths as well as to rapidly process the queue of local travelling in and out of Singapore, it makes those of us (or at least myself) who paid for the "Immagration Access-Card" feels like a fool. Instead of enjoying the express clearance initially marketed during the launch of the card back in 2004, the others who did not pay for the card is also enjoying the express lane of self-clearing jamming up the queue.

I suggest the authority to promptly look into resolving the matter as the money spent must be justifable in the case of us we've paid additional in supporting the government implementation of self-clearance "Immigration Access-Card". If no real advantage could be enjoyed, who would want to spend alittle more money to get ourselves jammed at the back of the queues of those who've not.

The possible and the simpliest solution is to isolate at least 2-lanes specifically for those "Access-Card" holders at every Singapore checkpoints. Else, the authority should consider a retrieval of the "Access-Card" for disposal and give refund since it can only be used in Singapore Checkpoints and no significant of having one when all others holding only passport could also self-cleared themselves at those express-lanes creating long queues.