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See my estimate was more like 2500-3000 calories a day, for a couple of reasons. The first and main reason is that people who talk like the OP ("I sometimes have a snack", and "I don't even eat that much but I'm putting on weight") are usually downplaying their intake severely, whether intentionally or not. And remember, he's putting on weight. There's no way a grown man is noticeably putting on weight at 1500 calories unless he's 130lbs and completely couch-locked.

My estimate is more like:

-8-9 am - milk glass in the morning after waking up -- "200ish calories if you are drinking about a 1.5 cups" - fair.
-10 am - breakfast: simple sandwich with ham and cheese, or cheese quesadillas with corn tortillas. sometimes roasted hot dog/sausage and lightly fried eggs -- I think you're wildly off here. 300 would be the bottom end and would only account for 2 fried eggs, nevermind the hot dog. Depending on how he makes the quesadilla I'm thinking closer to 1000 calories. Let's split the difference and say 600.
- chocolate milk or juice to go with breakfast - I think you're looking at more like 300 calories here.
- water and zero sugar soda through the day
- 3-4pm - usually, soup or rice, with some roasted chicken or meat and steamed veggies - 400 calories is not unreasonable, but given the rest of the context I bet its more. Say 600.
only sometimes something sweet for dessert, like cookies or mangoes - In other words most of the time something sweet for desert, which could be anywhere from 500 calories to another 1000 calories.
8-9 pm - for dinner, a glass of milk or yogurt, sometimes a sandwhich - "200 to 500ish" calories is fair.

OP - the sad thing is that you're eating a lot of calories but as you've noticed, you're not eating a lot of food. That's because your nutrition quality is pretty garbage, sorry. When you eat crap all day you can have very tiny amounts and chalk up a huge amount of calories and still be hungry. You need grains, fibre, vegetables and more protein.