Presidential Invocation at the 160th meeting on 11th Nov., 2008

The President, Hj Hashim had to do the invocation since Khoshim Malim who was assigned to do it did not turn up. The attendance at this meeting was not up to expectation as only 13 members were present. We had 2 guests, Duncan and Kumaran who later signed up to be members and Chen Voon Hann from MIATMC was the General Evaluator and a guest speaker, Wan Chee Wing from Maxis who did advance speech.

Hj Hashim's invocation: "GET UP WHEN YOU FALL"

Have you ever failed or made a mistake? If your answer is "YES" then it's good for you. The fact that you've failed is proof that you're not finished. Failures and mistakes can be a bridge, not a barricade, to success. Successful people believe that mistakes are just feedback. It's not how far you fall but how high you bounce that makes all the difference.
One of the riskiest things you can do in life is to take too many precautions and never have any failures or mistakes. Failure is the opportunity to start over more intelligently.
No one has ever achieved genuine success who did not, at one time or another, teeter on the edge of disaster. If you have tried to do something and failed, you are vastly better off than if you had tried to do nothing and succeeded. The person who never makes a mistake must get awfully tired of doing nothing. If you are not making mistakes, you're not risking enough.
Vernon Sanders says, "Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards." Experience is what you get when you are looking for something else.
Success consists of getting up just one time more than you fall down. So get up and go on. Proverbs says, "A man who refuses to admit his mistakes can never be successful, but if he confesses and forsakes them, he gets another chance."

Remember the old poem that says:

Success is a fiure turned inside out,
the silver tint of the clouds of doubt.

And you never can tell how close you are:
it may be near when seems so far.

So stick to the fight when you"re hardest hit;
it's when things seem worse that you must not quit.

(Unknown)