well, yes, choong was only following my advice to give max freechoice in food servings as he often works late into the night. since they stay in an apartment, max is confined to playing by himself and i guess he ate more than he should
however max is very healthy although a bit on the heavy side. his baby fat i guess. furthermore it is also in his genes as mother is quite large for a local cat and i suspect the father is also large (used to see the father around my house now he is gone). Max weighed around 5.8kg. so that's no so heavy as he is an unneutered male (although he's now "retired"). i'm sure with some extra activities he'd tone up easily.
later on, after he recovered from his surgery i plan to bring my cats over to play with him that way he has more friends and more activities.
my initial plan was to bring over gabriel if gabriel has yet to find a home but now that gabriel has found a home, my cats will do. i hope, my own cats are quite territorial and quite possessive.