Translation of the Vietnamese text
The seventy year old Ngyuen Van Nhuan was a public servant.
He tells us the following story:
As a pensioner I worry when the wedding season comes around.
A close friend, who is also a retired state employee,
invited me to the wedding of his daughter. I had to set aside a
hundred thousand Vietnamese dong - one third of my monthly
pension - for the wedding present.
If I am invited to three weddings in one month, I have no
money left for food!