Who's Ann

Pam from around the corner just rang the bell.

"Is this you?" she asked, waving a letter in my face.

I had to peer very hard through the fly screen mesh to read the name of the addressee.

"Er yes - my husband actually."

Locals tend to think anyone with an "Ann" in their name must be female. It's hard explaining the intricacies of Singaporean Chinese naming conventions, which we never thought about until we came here.