Received news the grandchild came to visit grandfather

Visiting grandmother too, what a precious heart!

Grandpa and grandma are a hundred years old now

The grandchild is blessed, this lucky day gathering together

The centenarians and the young joined together

Then later our paths part, we shall remember one another

Wishing the grandchild good health and prosperity

Praying the grandchild may long enjoy blessings

Then afterward the family situation at peace

Always full of happiness overflowing through the years.

Studying medicine, a long-cherished aspiration

Now accepted, my mind feels joyful

The future clearly shows its direction

Just go straight forward, no retreat, no stopping

From now on, before and behind

Determined to relieve suffering among every class of people

Kindness, charity, diligence

Is the resolved vow to bestow grace helping the world

Mung bean cake (0AN)

Glad that you have risen in standing

Healthy, happy, safe, teacher/father is overjoyed

Everywhere visited as wished

So the heart is satisfied, as if a wish came true!

Father here also feels proud

Seeing you helped with so many family matters

Mung bean cake you gave as a gift too

the country Vietnam, you never forget

Filial loyalty, gratitude, requiting merit

Your kindness, filial child, is kept in this heart.

Wishing aunt again - Phiến seated enjoying

Phiến here, born the Year of the Horse like older brother

But one cycle (12 years) apart, just younger by name

eighty-nine years old already

Fortunately the child is healthy, filling the role of the old mother

Still walking, still standing, going in and out

Still all the work inside the house and out in the yard

Helping children, helping attentively

Helping relatives too, kin able to rely on

The full moon of the seventh month, the occasion

Compassion, almsgiving is now to help the people

Heaven grants a hundred years drawing near gradually

Year two thousand twenty-nine, drawing close awaited

Hands joined hoping to attain the dream

Bowing the head to pray to Buddha, that sacred hour!

Recall the soul of you Tài, my younger sibling

sacred one, may you help protect wife and children

Your wife lives and behaves ever so uprightly

helping children, helping grandchildren, over mountains and passes!

Now the sons and daughters are shining examples

In school they have climbed to higher ranks

Glad that hearts and minds wish to repay

Helping the people, helping the country to rise, satisfying the heart

So many life-aspirations hoped for

Your wife Phạm Phiến wholeheartedly carries out

In one year you help four times

Then Heaven has witnessed whenever you did it

Your kindness, thinking of Vietnam

Wishing you serene, at ease, resting in peace!

It seems the curtain of winter has come!

The weather turns cold, cold that pierces the bone

Yellow leaves have fallen all over the road

For the trees, spring summer autumn are ending their season

Only the pine stands aloof

Showing that the bravest of all is the pine

Christmas, some kinds of roses

Vying in color, vying in beauty, none finds it strange.

Concluded now!

put on warm clothes

Each task to its own, not deterred by biting cold!

Long ago living with father

Born in Thủ Đức, the country being Vietnam

Then followed older sister to work

Settled in America, but eager to learn a trade

Now has a job not to be scorned

helping the weak and elderly, coming and going feels joyful

Having money, life tastes richer

Having leisure, the dreary life is gone

May the Lord always help my mind and heart

So I always keep a whole faithful flock's heart

My heart, always vows to remain whole.

Hoping Heaven, hoping the Lord help me all my life

Grateful to grandma for caring for me

Morning, noon, afternoon, night, always attentive

With me grandma is gentle, warm and tender

Her bearing, already admirable

Work done diligently always flowing

Managing meals fully, standing sitting content

For Christmas, bathing, hair set

Always attentive, nothing to complain about

Medicine on time, kept high (careful)

Sitting, resting, in and out with attention

Christmas, new year, exactly eight

The child gives chocolate, visiting temple to pass on

My wife and I have a good fate

Being cared for by grandma, helping pass on good things

Praying to Heaven, praying to God each day

Bless the Kim family, now marked auspicious.

Thanh Thi's age already over a hundred

Phong too has reached a full hundred

Wheelchair Phong must use now

Thanh Thi is ill, standing sitting must be watched

Grandma Nhi, a Vietnamese, gray-haired

Helping Phong Thanh eat their fill, medicine regular

Grandma Nhi's heart woven like brocade

Christmas gifts and cakes, like a dancing tent

Gentle words sweet as coconut water

Always inquiring morning noon and afternoon

Working truly by the right standard

Thanh Phong being well is worth recording

Grandma Nhi, who dares compare

Working diligently, reasoning never mistaken

Grateful for grandma's wholehearted care

Bringing over a box of cake gifted for Christmas

Grateful to grandma with true heart

Praying Heaven protects and blesses, spirit helping grandma!

Grandma Phong has been promoted now!

From now called Lady Tào, how amusing!

Do you know? Why call this name?

Grandma Nhị gave the garment now, without hesitation

The tailored garment is beautiful and well-fitting

Has sleeves, has pockets, chest bare exposed

Below one clearly sees the ba-ba shirt

Grandma Nhi gifting Thanh is truly clever/odd

Thanh Phong now lives visited tenderly

Grateful to grandma forever, reputation remembered for life

Long ago the Kitchen God was adrift

Now Lady Táo alongside him for life together