Angelina Cheong is a homemaker and mum to a wonderful 13 year old son. Aside from the house chores and the usual mum stuff, she is always thinking of ways to jazz up her home – be it setting a whole new look just by sewing new covers for the throw cushions or updating a favourite chair by sawing it to more pleasing proportions and reupholstering it. Get tips from this regular Jill of all trades to create pretty little corners in the home where you can unwind after a hectic day.

Anthony Thomas is a trained teacher with a publishing background and is onSponge content associate. He believes that the rise of an internet generation has partly contributed to a generational knowledge gap especially between parents and their children. Parents thus need to find a means to bridge that gap.





Elsa Tan devoted two career decades to the media scene spanning magazines, books, directories and the internet. She witnessed the industry transformation from technology applications to changes in usage behaviour that led to the current dynamic media landscape. A mother of two tweens, Elsa believes in nurturing beyond academic development to optimise their potential.




Margaret Samuel worked in the diplomatic line for the past 10 years. Happily married to Jeffrey Kwek, she has become a homemarker to take care of her two young boys, Manfred aged 10 and Solomom aged 8.  She believes that children have to be well nurtured at home to become good leaders of tomorrow.





Paul Wee has been in banking since 1999.  He is happily married for the past 11 years, and is the father of two, an eight-year-old girl and a three-and-a-half-year-old boy.  Paul believes that it is important to inculcate a love for learning in children; for once that is achieved, all types of learning will be a joy and not a job.





Ronnie Lew works full time at his church in the children ministry where he oversees curriculum writing, teaching and music for children of the 7-12 age group. Before that he was part of a Before & After Care centre. With a tremendous affinity for kids, Ronnie believes the moment a child is born, he embarks on a lifelong journey of understanding the world around him; the people, choices he makes and the consequences that follow.



Trevor Tan heads a local community service centre that serves the needs of the kids, teens, families and elderly around the Chinatown area and beyond. Married to San San, a stay-home mom, they have four kids: Rebecca, Reuben, Rachel and Ranice who are 15, 13, 11 and five respectively. Trevor and San San elected, after much careful consideration, to place all four of their children in a home schooling system...and they wished they had done it earlier! Read the onSponge interview.




Wendy Choong has two active boys (aged five and eight) and works online developing onSponge.com as its marketing associate. She believes that all working parents will appreciate an online parenting resource that will keep them up-to-date on trends in education, share their parenting experience and suss out products and services to make informed decisions."